[GeorgiaDawg32]

"And, then, yes, let’s cut off all federal funds for bilingual education, multicultural education, bilingual ballots."

let's also include social security benefits, medical care, ability to get a drivers license etc...if they want to be here with no perks (no taxpayer $$ supporting them), fine..but take all this away and there's no reason they should stay..IMHO

[Eagles6]

bttt

[tigtog]

If this is real immigration reform a penalty for employers who employ illegals is required. If they don't do that, then we are watching cartoons.

[joesnuffy]

We are witnessing the assertion of raw power (from and on behalf of non-citizens) that challenges our own citizenship and our very constitutional order.

Pretty much sums up the globalist's present days plans for the entity once called U.S.A. and it's freedom loving 'We the People'.....

imo

[saganite]

Absolutely none of this is going to happen. The multiculturalism of the last 20 years demands that we open the borders to any and all comers. No politician is going to insist on the rights of citizens vs the demands of foreigners. This is what we've come to.

[stopem]

" From hostile slogans to thousands of Mexican flags in the streets of our big cities, an open anti-patriotism has been launched. The demonstrators carry signs that tell us who they are: “This is stolen land” and “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” This movement—if that is the proper term to describe the incitement of the last few days—couldn’t be any further from the civil rights movement that began some fifty years ago. That was about inclusion; this is about separatism. That movement affirmed America as a dream worth waiting for; this one sees America as a land grab.

Are we going to just sit back and talk about it and allow Rome to burn while we just fiddle around or are we going to get serious about it and fight back?

[raybbr]

...children of immigrants and, therefore, those who are supposed to represent our Brave New Future...

Wrong! They are the "new Americans".

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.

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

[Dane]

And, then, yes, let’s cut off all federal funds for bilingual education, multicultural education, bilingual ballots.

I agree that English should be the language of govt. , but you can't cut off the funds for bi-lingual education etc., because the liberal SCOTUS of the 70's mandated such things.

But of course it much easier to rant like this author than actually look at facts.

Also has anyone noticed that these protests are coming from the liberal infested public schools.

[robowombat]

'We have arrived at a tipping point in American history. Make no mistake about it, these demonstrations are a challenge to what Aristotle and Straussian political theorists call a “regime” or “way of life.” We are witnessing the assertion of raw power (from and on behalf of non-citizens) that challenges our own citizenship and our very constitutional order. Illegal aliens who are here without the “consent of the governed” (aided and abetted by amoral corporate and ideological elites) are demanding that the views of the overwhelming majority of the American people (for border control and immigration restrictions) be ignored. This is an attempted social coup; war by other means.'

A number of times in posts I have said that the real menace of uncontrolled borders and ports of entry besides being a convenient path for terrorists was that it would lead to the 'Mexicanization' of much of the US Southwest. I defined 'Mexicanization' as the de facto acceptance of the cultural and political norms of Mexico transported to US soil. What specif norms am i talking about: The replacement of the family, clan, and tribe as the basic unit of loyalty rather than the nation. 'Personalist' loyalties to a patron or strong man trumping the rule of abstract law and justice, 'shame' rather than'guilt' as being the most important reference point for individual behavior. What are the effects of these norms on society? The emergence of blatant corruption and naked abuse of power and worship of force for it's own sake as normal. The collusion of government and especially the armed forces and the police/justice agencies with criminal elements to the point where it is difficult to tell them apart and finally the decline of the safety of the person and property to one of insignificance unless one belongs to the rich, the well born, the powerful or the criminal elements. In very basic terms it means armed home invasion become the norm, carjacking and car theft is carried out with brazen impunity, violent attacks on individuals for any of a laundry list of reasons or no reason at all becomes a day to day reality along with brazen daylight kidnapping or snatching of young and attractive females by bands of thugs to sell to brothel keepers after being repeatedly gang raped. Amid all of this police responses will be 'No se, senior.' That is what Mexicanization will bring and that is what these mobs of seditionists are trying to do.

[arthurus]

I suspect the left and the illegals have won this one and thereby, the war, the whole war. As soon as these new citizens are confirmed, our side of the Islamic War will be shut down and Sharia will, after a little time, triumph over America, including the Latino immigrants who will likely convert wholesale when they think it will give them sudden overwhelming power. Christianity may be relegated, for a while, to Southeast Asia, Australia, and Central Africa.

[First_Salute]

FrontPageMag's article above; excerpt:

Today, in its coverage of the reconquista, the Dallas Morning News pictured a young student named Michelle Marquez being screamed at by about 20 of her fellow students. Her offense was not being opposed to the protest under way, but joining it with an American flag in her hands.

Photo at: Americans wake to finding their flag poles with Mexican flags replacing the stars and stripes - FreeRepublic post by BJungNan, March 30, 2006 - reply 6, by Dallas59:

[Stopislamnow]

We have arrived at a tipping point in American history. Make no mistake about it, these demonstrations are a challenge to what Aristotle and Straussian political theorists call a “regime” or “way of life.” We are witnessing the assertion of raw power (from and on behalf of non-citizens) that challenges our own citizenship and our very constitutional order. Illegal aliens who are here without the “consent of the governed” (aided and abetted by amoral corporate and ideological elites) are demanding that the views of the overwhelming majority of the American people (for border control and immigration restrictions) be ignored. This is an attempted social coup; war by other means.

Americans know one way of War. And we are well equipped for it thanks to the foresight of our Founders. Screw the wetbacks. Time to send them packing.