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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€