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THE "NEW AMERICAN".....

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We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

Would she be less molested if it was an American citizen on top of her? Or would someone like to show that Americans never molest kids? Or maybe he molested her because he’s an illegal alien.

Should he be deported? Yes, after serving prison time in America. Should he have been deported before molesting the child? Yes, for coming here illegally. She he have come here at all? No, the wall that should be there should have kept him out.

Stick to the facts of illegal immigration and your arguments go lots further regarding the whole of the illegal immigration problem. I’m not sure it’s a good thing nor does it help the cause among thinking people to even infer that all, most or even a substantial number of illegals are sexual predators. Anyone with evidence to the contrary, please correct me.