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To: DoughtyOne
"My only quibble with your comments is that I don't see massive immigration as being able to be assimilated."

My first impulse was to harken back to the turn of the 20th century to the Irish and Italians and Eastern Europeans coming through Ellis Island. But it's now the turn of the 21st century, and immigrants from the ME, especially Islamics, have openly stated that they want to assimilate America, not be assimilated by her. The invasion analogy referring to "unassimilated immigration" was Pat Buchanan's I believe. Normally I'm loathe to quote him because I believe he's a self promoting crypto-fascist. But a government that invites 20 Mohammed Attas across its borders is no better than a government that would allow armed enemy invasion forces to camp out on the Mall in Washington "just to be friendly."

There's no practical difference between a country having an insufficient birthrate to replace its population and a country that can't field an army to defend itself. Both are doomed to be overrun and assimilated sooner or later.

93 posted on 05/14/2002 10:29:51 PM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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To: Harrison Bergeron
I agree with much of what you said, but disagree on the Buchanan comments. Unfortunately nobody else seems willing to step up to the plate on an issue that screams for attention.
95 posted on 05/14/2002 10:32:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Harrison Bergeron
There's no practical difference between a country having an insufficient birthrate to replace its population and a country that can't field an army to defend itself. Both are doomed to be overrun and assimilated sooner or later.

A certain level of immigration from countries that have people who can be assimilated into our culture is good if the birthrate is too low. Overly rapid immigration isn't good and when the government interferes with assimilation it's also not good.

99 posted on 05/14/2002 11:14:55 PM PDT by FITZ
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