olebluelight,

You said exactly what I wanted to say.

How can you deport people from land that is STOLEN in the first place?

Wawa...over countless centuries nations have been conquered, and to the conqueror goes the spoils. It may not be right, but it happened, and we can't go back and change it.

Your argument doesn't hold water when it comes to the current day situation with illegals.

awsmom8: "I read an article that said by year 2016 Gonzalez will replace Smith as the most common last name in America." SO WHAT? This statement makes it sound like you're more concerned about whites losing their majority status than about the serious strain that the millions of illegals put on our economic, health, and social service infrastructure. I hope that's not the case.

As for the birthright citizenship argument, the Supreme Court decided in the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) that the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to every child born in the United States, regardless of the citizenship status of the parents, with the exception of the children born to diplomats or to enemy forces in hostile occupation of the United States.

To educate you Gube when the trumped up Mexican American war was over and America took over all of what was Mexico, (Arizona,California, New Mexico, Texas)  a treaty was signed called the treaty of Guadalupe Heldago.  This treaty stated that all peoples left in these areas by law would be able to forever use Spanish as a first language.  As far as Mexico being a third world country you need to travel more open your eyes and educate yourself.  Mexico City is the largest city in the world with a population of 30 million people thriving with an economy greater than California.   If your talking about the other countries south of Mexico you would be right and in fact this is where most immigrants come from.  Your attitude is the one that is sickening.  Just keep shopping at the Grocery store and thank God your paying .99 a pound for produce rather than $3.00 a pound.  At the very least you should thank the hard working people who allow you to sit on your lazy but and receive cheap food and products instead of hateful feelings.  Stay mad Ill be happy knowing that one day you will wake up from your one point world view.   Shoot people as they come over the border what love you display for your fellow human being.  Typical Hypocrite of this land.  Hate never conquers over hate this is an Ancient rule.   God bless America

Awsome8 Thank you, you seem level headed and a humanist and you are right. My grandfather refused to teach us Spanish and insisted we spoke English.  Two generations later we are successful and my children know nothing of Spanish, however I am a thinking person and i want them to compete so I have hired tutors to teach them proper Spanish language.  I just can not sit quietly and accept rumors and false truths in regards to "illegal immigration"  it is scary to me that people in the land of the free are listening to this outright racism.  One needs to ask the question of oneself "how does this affect me personally what does this cost me personally?  Then direct those same questions towards the war in Iraq.  Who's the real enemy of the people? believe me it is not workers in the field, hotels, restaurant's, gardens providing you cheap food, houses, and services.  Love your neighbor no matter where from or what they look like and treat people as you would like to be treated.  Walk a mile in a persons shoes who came here leaving family and home to work as a peasant walk just one mile because they have walked 1000 to come here. 

xcite, I'm not sure where you get your information about Mexico, but it is a third world country with a corrupt government all the way down to the police. Women are still treated like possessions. Drugs are a HUGE problem. If it were such a wonderful country, why are so many risking their lives to get out of there? I've traveled in Mexico, and no, not the beautiful touristy places. I drove through areas I was scared sh*tless. I drove through areas that made me sob with the poverty and the begging children.

I've listened to the stories that my husband's crew in Las Vegas would tell about why they escaped and why they want their families out. These are hard working men that are here legally and do the hard physical labors that white boys whine about doing. And they aren't unskilled.

I say welcome to my wonderful country, but please do it legally and learn the language. And teach it to your children before they enter the school system.

awsmom, we may have once been a melting pot, but that has changed, we're more like tossed salad.

and gube I agree - we don't need to learn Spanish!!!

gube you're starting to sound like a neonazi, I agree we need to fix the problem of illegals and that they need to learn English, not the other way around, but you're just downright prejudiced against Mexicans, so why don't you go back to school where you belong, maybe you'll learn to use proper grammar and also learn to respect the other cultures in the melting pot (or "tossed salad") that is America.

Thanks awsmom8 for clearing that up, we need more level headed people like you.