Too many of your pro business "conservatives" do not have any idea about history. It took two generations plus immigration being cut down dramatically for 50 years to have full assimilation, and it was in the days before the welfare state and multi culturalism. I say this needs to be stopped now, and all attempts to reverse this madness need to be made.
As for good Catholic familes, just go though any barrio, and you will see they are hardly bastions of family values. Church attendence among Latinos is around 15%, and of that 15%, many are spoon fed Liberation Theology.
Narby, like other "conservatives" of your ilk, your ideas are not just wrong, they are dangerous.
Great post.
Not "dangerous". Just realistic. These folks aren't going anywhere, and note how just a bill in congress has fired them up. If we mobilized the 101st airborne to try and round them all up (and it would take a very large chunk of military to do the job), they'd burn down a large piece of the country by tomorrow morning.
There is talk about the "Arab Street". That's nothing compared to the "Chicano Street".
I figured it out that we've lost the battle with keeping immigration quotas 15 years ago when I personally flew an airplane over the Cinco de meyo (sp?) party in Downtown LA. The pictures of the half million in downtown LA the other day was nothing to the party these people hold there every year. It makes new years eve in Times Square look like a picnick.
We lost the battle with where these people live a long time ago. The only realistic thing we can do now is try hard to make them Americans. And threats that will put their back against the wall are the exact wrong thing to do to make them *want* to be americans.