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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
This Land is My Land .. or is it???

This beloved land of ours is in a downhill spiral! And our "leaders" are assisting, aiding and abetting the destruction of America as we used to know it. Their actions are beyond understanding and border on treason!

While our troops are halfway across the world fighting for democracy, our own leaders refuse to maintain democracy or order in the land they've taken an oath to protect and uphold. It's outrageous and if you're not mad, you should be! We're being sold out to anyone and everyone with nary a concern or ear for the will of the general populace.

Take the issue of illegal immigration. Someone needs to "take it" because Bush and our elected officials and Bush's bloviating co-Presidente Fox (and you thought Hillary was obnoxious!) are in cahoots to "Mexicanize" America.

First...some numbers on how far we've sunk!

A March 21, 2005 report by Pew Hispanic Research Center found:

Following several years of steady growth, the number of undocumented residents reached an estimated 10.3 million in March 2004 with undocumented Mexicans numbering 5.9 million or 57 percent of the total.

As of March 2005, the undocumented population has reached nearly 11 million including more than 6 million Mexicans, assuming the same rate of growth as in recent years.

About 80 to 85 percent of the migration from Mexico in recent years has been undocumented.

Since the mid-1990s, the most rapid growth in the number of undocumented migrants has been in states that previously had relatively small foreign-born populations. As a result, Arizona and North Carolina are now among the states with the largest numbers of undocumented migrants.

Although most undocumented migrants are young adults, there is also a sizeable childhood population. About one-sixth of the population--some 1.7 million people-- is under 18 years of the age.

Source: http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=44

Samuel P. Huntington, in a twelve-page article titled "The Hispanic Challenge," published in the March/April 2004 issue of Foreign Policy, makes some salient points including the 1) lack of assimliation into the American culture; and 2) pertinent differences between past and contemporary immigration and the current massive immigrant influx from Mexico.

"The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S.culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclavesâ€â€

If all of this is allowed to continue without pause, we will move to a dual language country, and in the end, we won't be one country anymore.

We need a national referendum on immigration and we need it quickly. Before the illegal aliens vote.. before the current majority of European Stock simply lose this country.

And while many complain about our country... the fact is, this country has done very, very well for the world. It is decidedly worth the fith.

Tom Tancredo for President.

Mexicanize hell,we have more Latin Illegals here (don't go by the 'official' estimation) than the entire populations of some Latin countries.

Originally Posted by rickesteves

Mexicanize hell,we have more Latin Illegals here (don't go by the 'official' estimation) than the entire populations of some Latin countries.

There is certainly a very large contingent of illegals from many points south of the border notwithstanding Mexico.

Originally Posted by shaw

If all of this is allowed to continue without pause, we will move to a dual language country, and in the end, we won't be one country anymore.

Yes, that's exactly what "they" want! I heard a report tonight on CNN about some "immigrants" in NYC complaining about three area hospitals' staff not speaking Spanish. Now they are going to have to hire interpreters.

RIDICULOUS! One woman interviewed has been here 15 years .. that's certainly enough time to learn English ... but I bet she just doesn't want to!

Here in SF we have always had people from all over the world,especially Latin America.However within the last 10-15 yrs there has been an overwhelming number from:Honduras,Guatemala,Colombia,and possibly the next big wave that we're not really discussing much,Brazil.The people that came here in the 70s and 80s from El Salvador,Nicaragua,Guatemala,and Honduras resent the new arrivals.

Part of my family came here from Portugal in 1912;the first thing they did was learn English.It was either learn English or starve.They never went back to their original language not even at home.My grandfather even went as far as to learn English,Spanish,and Italian to make sure he could get a job.These people have the nerve to want to be accomodated?!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by rickesteves

Part of my family came here from Portugal in 1912;the first thing they did was learn English.It was either learn English or starve.They never went back to their original language not even at home.My grandfather even went as far as to learn English,Spanish,and Italian to make sure he could get a job.These people have the nerve to want to be accomodated?!!!!!!!!

Your grandfather was one smart man and one to be admired.

As for this new "generation" of immigrants, well ... it's best for me not to pull out the rant box.

I've posted the article on the NY hospitals .. "Immi advocates seek NY state action(language barrier)" .. it should be easy to find in this section.

Originally Posted by watchman

Originally Posted by rickesteves

Part of my family came here from Portugal in 1912;the first thing they did was learn English.It was either learn English or starve.They never went back to their original language not even at home.My grandfather even went as far as to learn English,Spanish,and Italian to make sure he could get a job.These people have the nerve to want to be accomodated?!!!!!!!!

Your grandfather was one smart man and one to be admired.

As for this new "generation" of immigrants, well ... it's best for me not to pull out the rant box.

I've posted the article on the NY hospitals .. "Immi advocates seek NY state action(language barrier)" .. it should be easy to find in this section.

My grandfather was the oldest of 8 children;his father died at the age of 30 so my grandfather quit school in 4th grade (age 9) to help his mom support their family.He told me once that when he was young he worked in central California doing ag work for a guy that despised all his workers which were primarily Italian and Portuguese.The man hated them so much he invited them to a special 'chicken' dinner and then revealed to them that they had just consumed the stray cats on the property.My granfather put the boot to the man and moved here to the Bay Area.And he was legal.
His siblings pretty much achieved the American dream one-sister even receiving a letter congratulating her and her husband on their 63rd wedding anniversary hand signed by a sitting president.Maybe I shouldn't be as hard as I am on illegals but my family did it the right way and nobody should be issued a shortcut.

His siblings pretty much achieved the American dream one-sister even receiving a letter congratulating her and her husband on their 63rd wedding anniversary hand signed by a sitting president.Maybe I shouldn't be as hard as I am on illegals but my family did it the right way and nobody should be issued a shortcut.

Your sentiments and frustration with the current immigration situation are entirely understandable considering your family's impeccable record of law-abiding behavior when it comes to immigration.

Can you imagine how those in line now for citizenship feel with the threat of amnesty?

It's patently unfair!