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Gonna hunt me down?

He won't have to. After Mexico City, D.F. and Buenos Aires, the third largest city with the greatest number of Spanish-speaking residents is...Chicago, Illinois.

They'll be coming to displace the locals in Rockford and Schaumburg soon enough, and until then, the junkies and rapists among them will account for a few.

This discussion is pretty heated, so I am kind of hesitant about putting in my two cents. Oh, well. Here goes.

About illegals--nope, they should be bounced right on out of here. They want a better life? Come in the front door. It doesn't matter what country you are coming from. Do it the right way. Period.

About racism--border patrols are not targeting illegal Mexicans. They are targeting illegals. Unfortunately, there is now a great threat posed to this country by terrorists. Terrorists enter the country illegally. Therefore, illegals need to be turned away. That is just the way it is. End of story.

Illegals do incur a huge cost to the taxpayer. Strong-arming them into paying for these costs is wrong. Is anyone suggesting that American taxpayers should be footing the bill for only Mexican illegals? It kind of seems like it, which, IMO, would actually be more racist than wanting to keep illegals and their expense out.

Personally, I think legal immigration (when done right) is good for the United States. However, I think we should seriously reevaluate our legal and illegal immigration policies to safeguard our environment, country, citizens, and budget. It is not racist to do this. It is smart.

There are plenty of Mexican-Americans in Rockford. One, a former school board chairwoman, just ran a tight race for state representative as a socially conservative Republican against a black incumbent somewhat liberal Democrat in 2002. It was a bad year for the GOP here because of the outgoing crooked governor Lyin George Ryan who has apparently established: Pardon Me as the new state slogan. In a normal year, she would have won.