y thinking is when those that come, no matter from where, your coming to America.
Ok, now be an American. Until the last decade or so that was the way it was too. My Hispanic friends are Americans of a different heritage than me but first and foremost we are all Americans. Anything wrong with that?
If this country is allowed to follow the ideals of another country soon that will become part of our standard. Not a good scenario in my book.
It is fairly simple really, "you wanted to come and live in America so now be an American". Remember where and why you came, don't forget your heritage but be an American first now. If you want things to be like they were where you came from, go back there.
First generation assimilation hasn't really been the norm with previous waves of immigration, and I see no reason why this one should be different.
Also, I would put forward that it's possible (though of course we have no way of knowing) that given the means to immigrate here
legally and perhaps actually become
citizens the people who are now
illegals might suddenly feel more need to conform to American society. Some of them at least. As it is, why should they bother to learn the language or be more "American" when we don't consider them such and will deport them at the first opportunity?
Good. Then I assume you have no issue with the local police enforcing immigration laws as they are now doing in Mecklenburg CO, NC and other towns across the USA.
Yes and no. If local police come across an illegal alien, then I'd say they have a responsibility to detain them and hand them over to the proper authorities to be dealt with. They are, after all, breaking the law. At the same time, I think that
rooting out illegals is outside the scope of their responsibilities and that any time they spend doing so is time they aren't spending dealing with other crimes that
are their responsibility to investigate and attempt to prevent.
So move to Spanish speaking country and have fun.
Why move to a Spanish speaking country when I can instead just move to one of the many Spanish speaking
counties we have right here in this one?
Also, are we still under the false presumption that bilingual/Spanish-speaking areas are a new thing, brought on by illegal immigration? Yes, some of the ones we have
now are...but others have been around pretty much forever.
Oh no! Putting soldiers on the border might send the wrong message or offend someone.
No, putting soldiers on the border might be an improper use of military forces for law enforcement duties, something we in the US try to avoid. If you like martial law, move to another country that believes in it.
Putting it in capital letters doesn't make it right. Yes, it is
technically an "invasion" as Redworm pointed out. It actually fits two of the three definitions in the online dictionary entry I'm looking at right now (assuming we concede that it's harmful). Unfortunately, the
one definition that remains is the only one of the three for which a military response is appropriate.
If you want to talk about expanding the Border Patrol, then yeah that's a solution I can get behind (at least part of it). Is there some reason the military can accomplish anything the Border Patrol can't? Last I checked, law enforcement agencies could get ahold of NVG's, helicopters, off-road vehicles, etc. I imagine if the funds were there they could even get some of the nifty thermal sights the military uses. So why is it we should use the military for this purpose instead of simply expanding and funding the Border Patrol to the level necessary to get the job done? Is there some
reason heavy armored combat vehicles like tanks and APCs are needed to combat illegal immigration?
