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This is bunk.

Let me say that I have known plenty of fine folks from Soutn of the Border over the years. Some of my nicest neighbors have been immigrants from Mexico. They work hard, they have great kids. I hope they're here legally and I trust they are.

Then I've known folks from South of the Border like the ones who had a rumble outside my apartment window some years ago. And I'm thinking, either these guys are here illegally, or the INS decided that we just didn't have enough crack dealers here.

Legal immigration with set numbers is fine. Legal immigration in which the newcomers become Americans is even better. Having our country overrun by an unlimited flow immgrants from an alien culture is not. And I'm not willing to sell out our American heritage so that, somehow, American Catholics might benefit from the superior version of the Mass and the spirituality of Hispanic Catholics. If American Catholics deem themselves deficient in those areas, they have my blessing to fix them - on their own time and on their own dime, not mine.

I am not unfeeling toward the economic and political plight of Latin America. But Latin America needs to buckle down and deal with its own problems -- problems that have existed in one form or another since the Spaniards packed up their tents and left -- and, in some cases, when the colonials were still there. That is the solution for Latin America, not shipping its surplus population to El Norte.

I read the whole article and it is in my humble opinion, a bunch of PC nonsense. If the Hispanic Mass is so superior, I stand ready with my truck to help these fools relocate.
Human Life in Latin America?
Unless one is very rich, you have less value than a horse or cow. Does the writer of this garbage realize these "wonderful" people spend Sundays watching a poor defenseless animal being tortured to death as a sport?
Good Riddance.
Viva La Migra

Having our country overrun by an unlimited flow immgrants from an alien culture is not.

What is "alien" about Hispanic culture? It's as alien as, say, Irish culture was a century ago, which is to say, it isn't. It's certainly a lot more recognizable than Thai or Japanese or Chinese culture. The only thing "alien" about it is its Catholicism.

Now, to say that a lot of Catholics south of the border aren't living a Catholic life is only to say that they are sinful human beings, which is really no surprise. American Protestantism can't write home about being superior in that respect.

But ultimately, I think the major kick against the inflow of immigrants is the Catholic culture they bring with them. No one is complaining about Canadians coming across the border (although they do) precisely because Canadians aren't very Catholic in culture anymore. They're secular atheists like the rest of America.