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It has been documented in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam that ethnic diversity in neighborhoods has a corrosive effect, primarily because they maintain a separate culture and identity. In this ninth-in-a-series of FSM’s shocking reports on the horrors of illegal immigration, we suggest that America should look to its former presidents for guidance on how to overcome this dangerous situation.

How Can America Avoid Corrosive Effects of Balkanization?

Why does this section focus mostly on the attitudes of Mexican illegal immigrants? Because most illegal aliens apprehended on the southern border are Mexican, as noted by the government’s own data as reported in a Judicial Watch report, U.S. Border Patrol Survey Analysis.
While English is not the official language of the United States, it is the unofficial official language and English fluency is a requirement for anybody to be successful in the USA. Many illegal aliens have lived in the USA for years, even decades, and can not speak English. They are able to live comfortably in their “little Mexico” or “little China town” communities and never integrate into American society.
Results? In Los Angeles County, ballots are translated into Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Due to the recent influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants, many other counties around the US routinely have ballots printed in Spanish. If foreign language ballots are required, how did these people ever become citizens? Or are we just simply allowing non-citizens to vote?
English proficiency is one of the main requirements to become a citizen and one must be a citizen to vote. So then, why are ballots printed in foreign languages? The answer to that question is federal law – the 1965 Voting Rights Act was amended to mandate bilingual ballots in counties where there are 10,000 voting-age citizens in one ethnic group or where 5% of voting-age citizens belong to any single non-English-speaking group. So much for the “English language proficiency” requirements of becoming a citizen.
In an interesting aside on English, the Associated Press reported that 50% of Hispanics backed English measure, Proposition 103, on the 2006 Arizona ballot. In fact, as reported in Hispanics help pass laws against illegals: “All four of Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration propositions passed by wide margins - and, perhaps surprisingly, several surveys showed that between 40 percent and 50 percent of Hispanics voted for them.” Evidently, like immigrants of the past, there are many Hispanics who want to integrate and become Americans and believe English is mandatory.
Most public schools are now teaching Spanish almost to the exclusion of all other foreign languages. How much longer before we start printing road signs with Spanish subtitles like WalMart and some other stores are currently doing on their isle signs in some of their stores? As demonstrated throughout history, and more recently by Quebec and the Balkans, a nation needs a common language, culture, and heritage.
Contrary to the common refrain that immigration, legal and illegal, contributes to “diversity” an October 8, 2006 article in the Financial Times, Study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity,reports:
“A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam, one of the world’s most influential political scientists.
His research shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone – from their next-door neighbor to the mayor.
...When the data were adjusted for class, income and other factors, they showed that the more people of different races lived in the same community, the greater the loss of trust. “They don’t trust the local mayor, they don’t trust the local paper, they don’t trust other people and they don’t trust institutions,” said Prof Putnam. “The only thing there’s more of is protest marches and TV watching.”
A recent opinion piece in the Dallas News, Can We Bridge the Black-Latino Divide, echoes the growing problem: “As the debate over illegal immigration has intensified, so, it seems, have the tensions between Latinos and blacks. Dallas school board meetings are a microcosm of what many urban communities, especially those with large influxes of Latino immigrants, are experiencing.”
While the author uses the politically correct “Latino immigrants” the problem is actually with the Latino illegal aliens displacing poor Blacks on the economic ladder. Note that the tension is increasing the division between Blacks and all Latinos; thus illegal aliens are damaging the relations between Blacks and Latinos.
How can the Balkanization be avoided? Not by Professor Putnam’s ideas of changing society but by President Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on who the immigrant should be and what the responsibilities of the immigrant are:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Then there are Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts on immigration.
As reported in Examine Mexico's Real Intent Before Reforming Immigration:
“In May, 2005, the BBC reported: "The Latinization of California is nothing short of a revolution. California will become a predominantly Spanish-speaking state within the next few years. And, as the majority population, there is really no need, or incentive, for them to assimilate into mainstream American society as their predecessors have always done. Whether Latinos then decide to push for greater autonomy or to seek a political agenda of their own with closer ties to Mexico and Central America is very much up for grabs." In 2001, the pro-immigration New California Media reported that Mexico "continues to mourn the loss of half of its territory to the U.S. in the 19th Century."
Mexico is pushing hard for amnesty and various benefits for millions of illegal Mexican migrants. Once naturalized, amnestied migrants could add tens of millions of people and future voters to the U.S. through births here and through immigration of extended families. U.S.-born children, even of illegal immigrants and guest workers, are American citizens and could vote at 18. Furthermore, in 2001 Ernesto Ruffo Appel, then-border czar of Mexico, reportedly advised Mexican migrants: "If the border patrol agent finds you, try again."”
As noted in an Investor Business Daily article, Los Angeles, Mexico (archived here):
“Few caught the significance of the words of then-Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo before the National Council of La Raza in Chicago on July 27, 1997: "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders." (emphasis added)
Current President Vicente Fox repeated this line during a 2001 visit to the U.S., when he called for open borders and endorsed Mexico's new dual citizenship law.
A June 2002 Zogby poll found that the majority of Mexican citizens agree with him and hold the view that, since the Southwest U.S. really belongs to Mexico, they do not need permission to enter. The poll found that 58% of Mexicans agreed with the statement, "The territory of the United States' Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico."”
An interesting aspect of the balkanization of America is the playing of the “race card” when the discussion of illegal immigration comes up. According to most Latino advocacy groups, just being against illegal immigration is racist. The attitude is best expressed by Alfredo Gutierrez, political consultant, "We call things racism just to get attention. We reduce complicated problems to racism, not because it is racism, but because it works." As quoted in The ProEnglish Advocate, 1st quarter, 2002 as reported by Richard de Uriarte, in The Phoenix Gazette, March 14, 1992.
This attitude is carried out in the Latino “rights” groups mentioned earlier in these pages and by other such groups like the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fundwhere every perceived injustice is because of “racism.” In actual fact, as documented above, it is these very same groups that are often acting in a racist manner.
"Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada!" which means "For the Race, everything, for those outside the Race, nothing!”
Such attitudes do not contribute to an indivisible country and homogenous society and are not in keeping with the motto of the United States: E Pluribus Unum ("Out Of Many, One").
The canary in the mine is found in our prisons where it is noted Illegal immigration sparks 'race war' in cities, prisons.
They do, however, greatly contribute to the Balkanization of the USA and are part of the collateral damage of illegal immigration.
For some interesting insights on the problem, see the video HISPANIC MINUTEMAN-COP FIGHTS CORRUPTION & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
C’mon America…this is YOUR problem and only YOU can clean it up. Your elected officials will not do this unless you tell them to. Go here to register your complaint. Your thoughts matter.



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