I have family that lived in the Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods of Chicago that were overrun by illegal aliens, from Mexico, beginning some 50 years ago and continuing to the present day. They say that assistance from Roman Catholic churches in those neighborhoods like St. Procopius, Holy Trinity and others had a lot to do with their ability to stay and not be sent back.
Teddy Kennedy is Roman Catholic.
Hmmm, maybe those Protestants were onto something.
Buchanan is right generally. But he and we need to raise up a good crop of similarly right Congressional, Presidential, and Statewide candidates.
--"Fifty years ago, the Protestants of "North European Reformation culture" worried about the influence that the Roman Catholic immigrants from southern and eastern Europe would have on our nation."--
When the great "Second wave" of mostly Catholic and Jewish immigrants from southern and eastern Europe occured, roughly 80-110 years ago, the United States was still a young, robust, fast-growing nation which needed these people. However, nations are living things, and all living things age (as it needed the Irish, Germans and Nordics of the pre-Civil War first wave). Now, the United States is in the autumn of its years, it is slowing down economically, politically, militarily and culturally (not as badly as Old Europe, but we are getting there!), and can no longer absorb large numbers of immigrants. This is perhaps why so many wind up on welfare or in criminal gangs; there is, unlike the case of the european immigrant of 100 years ago, no longer real work for them to do.