I don't live in San Jose...but I do know the way.
I do live in a town in Texas where we white trash folks are the minority.
I do agree that it's a problem, has been for years and needs to be addressed.
I just don't understand the sudden panic and frantic search for someone to blame or vote for or .....
I've been p*ssed about the problem for years, but speaking for others perhaps there was a collective epiphany when Americans turned on their tvs a few weeks back to see tens of thousands of latinos, a good number of them illegal, in the streets having a purple-rage fit & waving foreign flags.
It's not really sudden or even what could be called panic, altura. It has been simmering for quite a few years now and is only now coming to a boil for several reasons, IMO:
They may have read the stories about false IDs and drivers licenses on the increase in their hometown. They may have tried to find employment and discover that they didn't get the job because they don't speak Spanish. They may have noticed their neighbors have a two-bedroom house but 15 people reside in it. They may have gone to a hospital for emergency medical care and realized how the level of service has greatly declined because the number of patients has increased but the number of payees comes nowhere near that. Those are just a few examples of major changes that have happened while our attention was elsewhere.
Yeah, now it's an election year. Yeah, oil prices are heading upward. Yeah, Roseann Roseannadanna was right..."It's always something." Unfortunately, we have MILLIONS of lawbreakers affecting our economy, our way of life, even our form of government. Yeah, I know George W. Bush is a 'compassionate' 'conservative' --- and I knew that when I voted for him. I knew he was 'compassionate' toward our neighbors to the south. But when it comes to the threat to justice and the American way, he must forgo some of that compassion and stand up for principle and our Constitution. (Let President Fox take care of protecting the people of his country.)
It is now time for President Bush to do his duty and honor his oath by protecting us from the threat to our homeland in just as forceful a way as he has been doing in the WOT.