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I've eaten local food in Iraq. I doubt anything you'll tell me about a taco stand in Phoenix will scare me.
+1 Rat-on-a-stick, taco stands, NYC hot dog carts: bring 'em on. Other than Hep C and HIV, I'm not scared of much.
Sometimes, "intestinal fortitude" is not a metaphor....
Some random thoughts:
I will never support abdicating one iota of American sovereignty. I won't support any super-national organizations until and unless they guarantee the same or more freedoms than our Constitution. Germain to this forum: can anyone name a super-national governing body that supports the RKBA?
I don't blame the illegals for getting here: it's a tacit compliment that our nation and economic system are better than the ones they come from. They recognized an opportunity, and had the risk-taking spirit to act on it. The only dangerous attitude I see is the few extremists that feel "entitled" to American prosperity, because we "stole" all that good land in the desert Southwest that should belong to Mexico.
I don't support amnesty, though. Shame on us for letting the problem get so far out of hand in the first place, i.e. getting to the point where we couldn't deport them all even if we wanted to, without grave consequences. Bad on us for leading the body of illegals to think they could get away with staying here indefinitely, but our easy-going tolerance has to end. Unfortunately, people will suffer.
I don't support giving benefits (medical, schooling) to illegals. No, I don't want to see people living in our midst suffering without those things; those people just shouldn't be living in our midst.
I don't believe in maintaining slave class of illegals. Some say they fill jobs, such as harvesting fruit, that others won't take because of the low wage. I think the right answer is, maybe it will take $15 an hour to entice a native born American to work in the fields all day, and if that means we must pay six times as much for apples in the supermarket, we're morally obliged to suck it up rather than allow a slave class of illegal migrants to fill this economic need. IOW, the laws of supply and demand will apply and wages offered will adjust themselves to the available labor pool, a pool which currently includes desperate illegal immigrants, who wouldn't be excerting the downward wage pressure, should growers be forced to hire legal workers. (Or maybe, absent cheap illegals, a mechanized form of harvesting will become the cheaper alternative to human labor.)
I admire and enjoy aspects of Hispanic culture. I also support English First.
Political correctness must die, or our culture will. Acceptance of multiculturalism is a continuum. Western civilisation saw the horrors of one end of this continuum--Fascism leading to Holocaust and segregation/Aparteid--and recoiled from them (and rightly so). However, we've overshot the mark and are now seeing the problems at the other end of the continuum. We've denigrated nationalism and patriotism and preached acceptance of others at the expense of our own identity for so long that we're in danger of being destroyed by those with no doubts about their identity; Islamists and Mexican nationalists both come to mind....