Phantom, you speak of assimilation. Just what do you mean? New Mexico is 50% Hispanic. Assimilation? Sure. I'll give you Spanish lessons and find someone to teach you how to make chile verde.
I have no objection to immigrants retaining their native culture. More power to them. I'm a huge lefse fan, which I get from my 1/8 of Norwegianness (sp?). But the language of the land is English and most of the country's business is transacted in English. So I don't feel it's unreasonable to expect citizens to speak English, at least if they want to interact with the rest of society.
Respectfully, most of it didn't. England only had claims to the East coast...
You missed the forest by looking at the one deformed tree. Your paragraph is exactly my point. America used to belong to many different countries. Not all of our land aquisitions were peaceful. But it's silly to start going back and saying "We owe France this and Mexico that and England this." We fought wars, we won, and that's it. America doesn't owe anything to those countries.
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This isn't about hatred for an ethnicity. This is about Mexico "happily dumping it's unemployables across the border." And then the US being expected to give them all kinds of benefits without them becoming citizens.
This is all about it. Every good old boy from Brownsville to Kansas City wants to come down to the border and play Boy Scout. Until you can say "Mexicans," or Latinos, or Hispanics, and not slur "meskins' off the end of your tongue like it's a curse, it's all about it.
Ok. "Mexicans." "Latinos." "Hispanics." Some people are against illegal immigration because they are racist. I'm not. I don't believe most of the other people in this thread are either. Speaking for myself, I am opposed to people illegally entering this country and being given the full benefits of citizenship. I don't care if they are Hispanic, Asian, Black, or White Anglo Saxon Protestants.
This is how people get called ditto-heads.
And? I see no shame in expressing your agreement when someone has summed up your own position succinctly.
Oh, and the word should be ITS, like I typed, not IT'S. ITS is a possessive, and IT'S is a verb contraction. Nothing worse than a mistaken correction. ¿ Quieres que te enseñe la gramática en español también ?
The grammar police caught me, and I was wrong, so I'll take my licks like a man. I am aware of the difference and simply didn't proofread my post sufficently. I had hoped that most people would be able to dredge up my main points from amongst the clutter and painful plethora of grammatical errors...
P.S. What's w/ quoting me as PhantomIntellect? Is that a glitch in the software or is it supposed to be an insult?