A catastrophe is happening to our country, despite our best efforts to deny that it is happening. The situation is this: Latin America, a dysfunctional colossus that has always dwarfed us in size and population, is expanding its territory through the uncontrolled migration of millions of its inhabitants. In doing this it is moving the northern border of Mexico, in effect if not in name, further northwards into the United States.

On our side of the border one hears talk only of “immigrationâ€