[Tolik]

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Links: FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson 
His website: http://victorhanson.com/     NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[satchmodog9]

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[DJ Taylor]

"Indeed almost one-tenth of Mexico's population currently lives here illegally!"

That is an interesting statistic if I ever saw one.

[Constitution Day]

BUMP.


Amazing article. Thanks for posting it!

[EyeGuy]

"Many Americans - perhaps out of understandable and well-meant empathy for the dispossessed who toil so hard for so little..."

For many on the Left, I sincerely doubt that it is empathy, more like a calculated strategy to add to their voter base. Besides, my understanding of empathy is that the empathisizer have some first-hand understanding of the plight of the unfortunate. Most liberals are very well-fed.

More importantly, the largesse of the United States can only go so far; we are not a bottomless well of economic resources for the "dispossessed". Our refusal to enforce existing border and immigration law allows Mexico's corrupt economic and political system to not only continue, but to flourish, leading to still more, ah dispossession. Reminds me of our massively failed welfare system, except that at least these people are willing to work.

[dennisw]

It is estimated that the U.S. is home to 11 or 12 million illegal aliens...

..MAKE THAT 20 MILLION.

[VOA]

"I'm here to tag my new car. My old car got totalled the other day.
The other guy jumped out of his car and ran away. Cops haven't caught him.
Probably illegal."


That's what a fellow standing in line with me at the DMV in Los Angeles
(on Cloverfield in West LA/Santa Monica area) told me when I was getting my
CA license in 1995.

[Fury]

But the real problem is that we, the hosts, are also different from our predecessors. Today we ask too little of too many of our immigrants. We apparently don't care whether they come legally or learn English - or how they fare when they're not at work. Nor do we ask all of them to accept the brutal bargain of an American melting pot that rapidly absorbs the culture of an immigrant in exchange for the benefits of citizenship.

Absolute slam dunk. Home run.

Many immigrants end up sending money back to Mexico, while suckling at the teat of the US and state government for health care, schooling, food stamps, etc, etc. Until there is an disincentive to not send money back to the "old country", and folks are absorbed into the American melting pot, there problem will continue to get worse. Of all the possible writings, I think Dr. Hansons's writings on the immigration problem are the best, and his solution seems reasonable.

[little jeremiah]

BTTT and later read.

[GOPJ]

Many Americans - perhaps out of understandable and well-meant empathy for the dispossessed who toil so hard for so little - support this present open system of non-borders.

Or perhaps out of greed -- or a lack of understanding that there's no free lunch -- or perhaps an inability to look beyond a short term gain to see the long term disaster. Perhaps, indeed.