[onceone]

Hispanic immigrants, by the thousands in Ohio? Are we accepting that many immigrants from south of the border?

Living in California, it has gotten to the point where there is no distinction between illegal immigration and the immigration this country experienced at the turn of the 20th century. Both of my father's parents were immigrants - documented, sponsered, and assimmilatd in less than a generation. Funny how that works when you come into the country legally with the intention, no the dream, of becoming Americans.

With the census of 2002 setting the Hispanic population at just under 38 million, and estimates of 5 million or more illegal Mexican immigrants in the country, at what point do you stop being labelled a racist when you question where someone came from and begin being recognized as a realist?

[ScreamingFist]

...at what point do you stop being labelled a racist when you question where someone came from and begin being recognized as a realist?

Post #5...I'm not hispanic but my children and family are. Like I said, those who hate won't see us coming.

Immigration is out of control, period. The through down is coming...apparently.

[hispanarepublicana]

I'll weep from heartbreak the day someone asks me for my papers, and I fear it's coming soon. I'll weep from anger toward those who didn't secure the borders. I'll weep from resentment for those who flooded our country illegally. I'll weep for their own corrupt leaders who were unable to keep them in their countries. I'll weep for all my ancestors who fought (and died in some cases) for this nation when duty called. I'll weep from contempt for those who seemed to know an an American Schmidt from a German Schmidt during WWII but can't seem to tell that I'm an American as we suffer today's "invasion". I'll weep from bewilderment at those who'll try to tell me it's our own fault for not speaking out more strongly against "our kind" (even though I don't even know anyone in Mexico).

There was a time on FR when I never found the occasion to take umbrage, but I've found myself more and more tempted in recent months to hit the "abuse" button and it makes me sad because I know worse days in the "real world" are coming.

Those of you with honorable, truly patriotic intentions, please please please continue to pressure Washington into doing something. And, I'm not talking about a "guest-worker" program, either. I'm talking about keeping our nation sovereign and secure for ALL its citizens rather than continuing to foster an environment that is divisive in so many ways.

[wardaddy]

there are at least 11 million illegals....W's administration admits this.

i suspect twice that.

when Reagan gave amnesty...the turnout was double the estimate.

[OKIEDOC]

at what point do you stop being labelled a racist when you question where someone came from and begin being recognized as a realist?


Good point.

[combat_boots]

Estimates are 6000 persons per day crossing the Southern border illegally.

There are plenty of places in Ohio cities where not only can you hear Spanish only, but other languages, too, i.e., Somali.

[Xenalyte]

Acceptance has nothing to do with it. It's not like we have a choice.

[mabelkitty]

Ohio's government is

http://jfs.ohio.gov/agriculture/Migrant_Agricultural_Report_2001.pdf#search='ohio%20migrant%20worker'