Exclusiva

Here in California, many Hispanics are indeed in "key political, business and social positions", such as mayor of L.A. (a former campus radical who explicitly supports illegal immigration and who's a former leader of a racial separatist group), former Lt. Gov (a former member of that same racial separatist group), several state reps. (including former members of that same racial separatist group).

Unfortunately, here in CA it's difficult to find a Mexican-American elected official who isn't to some degree an ethnic nationalistic supporter of illegal immigration. About the only distinction is to what degree they act like they're actually working for Mexico. That doesn't exactly portend well for Puente's vision of "Integration".

Exhibit One
Watch the speaker of the CA Assembly snap to attention and salute Mexico's national anthem after failing to do so for America's national anthem:

"Power Apartheid".. Now that's a new one. "Browning"?? Now that is plain Racism added to blatant racism by the media - This article is just as racist as any other of those that are written to promote the criminal illegal aliens who are making obnoxious demands of the American people. I would like to see ABC post one article that reveals the illegal aliens as they truly are... All Illegal aliens are criminals, many if not most are Felons that have stolen identities or forged Social Security numbers in order to further defraud the American people. The illegal aliens are not here to become Americans, the illegal aliens do not adopt the culture and language of the United States, the illegal aliens do not abide by our laws, and We The People (by 90%) do not approve of their demand for amnesty and "benefits" for their illegal behavior. It sounds like the writer of this latest hit piece against The American Citizen is a promoter of anarchy and illegal criminal behavior - it might be worth taking a good look at those who promote and harbor illegal aliens. We (the American people - Red Yellow Black & White - AND Brown) have just about had enough of this insanity.

Dear Mercedes,
Most Americans have empathy for those who want to come here for a better life. In fact most of us are immigrants ourselves or are children or grandchildren of immigrants. The problem we face today is that we need to have a safe, orderly, legal process, none of which we have right now.

I blame our politicians for putting us in this mess more than I do the people who have come here illegally. For decades they have refused to enforce our borders and current immigration law, and have lacked the leadership to make positive changes. And now Congress and the President seem to want to wipe the slate clean and say, "sorry, we screwed up but you are just going to have to suck it up for our past mistakes. And by the way we're not going to make any promises that we're going to do any better in the future."

We are a country built on immigrants. We want immigrants here. We just want the process to be fair, and safe while resprecting the current citizens of America.

I have been in this country since President Reagan was re-elected. I entered legally and acquired a PhD from a big University in this country with publication in top science journals. My children are citizens by birth, and despite everything my wife and I did to acquire legal status and make to good use all this education, there is nothing to show for. We entered legally and had been registered, fingerprinted, paying taxes, even paying vehicule insurance and whatever license or fees required including going to traffic school and paying fines and have absolutely no access to any benefits whatsoever. We are struggling with medical bills, and have to make it with meager wages. We are tired of running away, but we are trying to do what is best for our children. We still count ourselves as blessed and would not hesitate to give up what we have for miserable conditions from where we came from. We hope and pray that the American legislators will find it in their wisdom to make this a reality and end this cycle. God Bless.

Correct:

Not: "We still count ourselves as blessed and would not hesitate to give up what we have for miserable conditions from where we came from"

Read: "We still count ourselves as blessed and would not hesitate to do it all over again for going back to the miserable conditions from where we came from"

I know you got the point, but want it to be clear.

It is pretty sad to read the comments of many people that you can tell by their names that they are also inmigrants, their ancesters came to the United States to get a better life, whether it was because of the Holocaust or because the poor living conditions of their contries, lets face it,the United States is a Diverse country and yes I agree that the people needs to learn the English language, but many of them had already learn it and it is impresionant when you see that they speak both languages when many of us still do not know how to speak our English language.
I bet it took a while for antecendants to learn the English language as well and some of them haven't learn it yet.

Mercedes,

If all of you demonstrated and activated in your own country the way the illegals do in the US, you could take over your own government for a better way of life in your own country.

The US will run out of resources. You've just admitted you are only here for the money, which is precisley why most illegals come.

Our country to you is only a money tree. That's why you don't respect us, our country, our way of life, or want to assimilate.

It's a bit more than that to us.

Change your own government or come here legally. You (illegals, no matter where they come from) are not the only people who want to come here. Your illegal actions are not fair to law abiding immigrant entrants.

Overall, American people respect our rule of law and order and we are generous and compassionate.

We do not appreciate thieves. The whole world, it seems, wants or needs something from America and we've been a constant source to help them.

I don't care what kind of sob story you have there are American citizens who need work, food, education, medical attention, etc that illegals are getting that our own countrymen need and can not access.

The audacity of a people who would steal into our country illegally, find every loophole they can for every provision they can rob, and then demand more special treatment?

new amnesty bill?
The Dream Act- illegals can pay instate tuition, but Americans cannot.

Go home.

American whites are predominantly xenophobic, and generally detest people from developing countries becoming US citizens. It's ironic that between the 15th & 18th centuries, white people from Europe (where the ancestors of most of America's white people came from) descended on every region of the world and colonized the local people, forcibly taking over their lands, and turning them into their own. They did this in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, etc. What's infuriating about these white colonizers is that once they established a foothold at the expense of the native people, they erected barriers to restrict other people from coming in.
By the way, if we were to demand the identities of every one who has spoken against the Immigration Bill on this blog we would discover that they are mostly white people. Would you say that is an accident or a coincidence? NO! White people are manifestly racist and xenophobic.

By the way, not every illegal immigrant came from Mexico. In fact not every one even came in illegally. There are a few cases of people whose applications for visa extensions were bungled by the US Immigration. When the mistakes were discovered and were brought to Immigration's attention, Immigration only admitted to them, didn't even say "sorry" and just acted as if these foreigners were mere statistics on their graph chart. For instance, a guy I know had been given a 3-year visa extension by Immigration. 1 & a half years into that extension, Immigration discovered that they had issued the extension in error, and wrote back to cancel it. This immediately put he and his family in automatic illegal status, since they couldn't just get up the next day without elaborate preparation and return to their country. Now, these are some of the people who are counted among America's so-called 12 million illegals. My advice to you is to desist from over-generalizations of how the illegals came into the country. Please do not dump all of them in one basket, because their situations are not the same.