[buccaneer81]

Uh, Boris, 80% of the AMERICAN Nobel-Prize Winners were born in another country. Care to reconsider?

And how many were from South of the Rio Grande? I would venture a guess that most came from Europe or Asia.

[LS]

You are 100% right. But that wasn't the comment: the comment was an IMMIGRANT bashing, not an "illegal-bashing." Now, if you want to make the argument anti-Mexican or anti-Latin American, that is a different argument. No, we don't get many Nobel Prize winners from Mexico. We get a higher % of our soldiers and marines; a higher percentage of restaurant owners; and other small businesses from Mexican legal immigrants. I won't argue that the Latin culture does not emphasize science and math the way Asians do, but they are productive in other ways. God help us if all we have are chemists.