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I choose to neither run nor hide. The 24 year old Mexican working the fry vat at Carl Jrs. tonight could very well see his grandson graduate with honors from Law School or earn his Army Ranger beret in his lifetime. His grandaughter could be an engineer, an architect, a doctor. No, I'll hang around, thank you, and watch America work its beautiful mojo. Yes, I'll fight the cynical politicians who wish to deny that fry cook's opportunity to see his grandchildren reach success in America beyond his wildest hopes as he he waited for that bus home from the burger joint night after night 35 years earler. I won't passively allow creeps like Paul Wellstone, Roger Moe and the other liberal do-gooders to kill American dreams with their fools gold and patronizing poison. But I know, after the Mexicans move up the ladder over the next 75 years, it'll then be Nigerians or Brazilians or Indians or Malaysians coming to America in waves ... angering and worrying the Mexican-Americans greatly. Ain't that America?

You're right in some respects about the upward mobility that America engenders. Yet, you seem to have too idealistic a view of the situation. The children of illegals will more often than not probably end up on welfare or in some gang than end up educated and successful. Take a city like Fresno, Calfornia, for example. Their are many immigrants' children there. Fresno has a 25% welfare rate and a 16% unemployment rate. The city is deteriorating. Is this the America of the future? Hispanic drop-out rates from high-school are high (around 30%), illegimate children are the same rate. These numbers, among others, don't predict success. Hispanics are, after American Indians and Blacks, the poorest ethnic group in America, with a 25% welfare dependency rate. These numbers don't bode well for the future.

How come all that wonderful upward mobility didn't happen to the inner city people? For the same reason it's not going to happen to many of the illegals who move into housing projects and lack education. We have a 38% drop out rate here along the border, teen pregnancy rates are higher in this group than they are for inner city teens. That upward mobility does happen for some of the immigrants but it's not happening for many. Travel to the SW and take a look around some of the county hospitals and housing projects ---you aren't going to see upward mobility.