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One thing I have learned from growing up on the border and from 3.5 years living in Latin America is that the Latin Culture has never experienced many of the "culture altering" events that we historically take for granted. Yes there was Simon Bolivar, but he merely liberated the "rabi blancos" from Spain. They have NEVER had a "Civil Rights" movement. They have NEVER made any kind of serious effort to have "equality". They have a VERY stratified society. If you are a descendant of Spanish then you are "elite" and if you are not you are a peasant. PERIOD. END OF STORY. What you see when you see illegals here are their PEASANTS who are sick of living in a society of UNEQUALS.

Latins culture is plagued with a problem that is inseperable from the culture itself. The "Mordida". The "bribe". You can have the "arm" put on you at any time by anyone with any small amount of authority at anytime. This runs through their culture from the cop on the beat to the very top. People who fix your plumbing, you name it they all will actually do what their supposed to "for a little extra". This is why their economies are so sluggish, no outsider can invest if he can't project what the actual costs will be. This is why "their own", the rabi blancos are all "made men".

Check for yourself, there are more millionaires in Mexico than in the U.S. We are being played for suckers here by our own politicians and media. I read that of the 5 million jobs created here in the last 5 years 9 of ten of them are being held by illegals. With this kind of downward pressure on our economy how can it be "doing well?" It isn't, they are just playing with the numbers. Clinton did it and now Bush is doing the same thing. As long as there is "full employment" the numbers look good. Truth is it is worse than with NAFTA where Americans had to compete with foreign labor that was "over there", now we have to compete with foreign labor that is right here.

Mexico should be forced to deal with it's own poor and disaffected. Latin America needs to undergo a huge Civil Rights movement of it's own to end the centuries of racism and corruption that are holding it back. As long as we let them slough their poor underclass on us we are "enabling" their practices that we wouldn't tolerate here.

"Mexico should be forced to deal with it's own poor and disaffected. Latin America needs to undergo a huge Civil Rights movement of it's own to end the centuries of racism and corruption that are holding it back. As long as we let them slough their poor underclass on us we are "enabling" their practices that we wouldn't tolerate here.'

Well said ..worth reposting.

Good points and well worth saying more than once.

wow, a fantastic post. Bush is so wrong on this issue. I sometimes wonder if Laura (the nurturer) isn't pushing him on this. Bush seem's to be so out of touch with "real Americans" on this issue. I truly fear Amnesty will be in this bill. It would be so easy to build a wall across the border -- it just takes the will.

Agreed, we are importing their corrupt culture, their stratification, their backwardness, everything.

Bush is a POS.