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An AMAZING analysis.

Bush did more to increase the Hispanic population in America by his neglect of our border and refusal to enforce immigration laws than anyone I know of.

Perhaps this fellow think all South Americans, Central Americans and Mexicans should have a birthright of American citizenship.

I wasn't born in a Latin American country, and I don't want to live in one. If I did, I would go to Mexico. There I would be expected to learn THEIR language and adopt THEIR customs. If they come HERE - to an ANGLO country - they should reciprocate. That is something the author of this piece, Bush, McCain and Ted Kennedy are apparently incapable of comprehending.

Bush did more to increase the Hispanic population in America by his neglect of our border and refusal to enforce immigration laws than anyone I know of.

It wasn't just that. He INTENDED to create a "new America" with hispanic culture equal to our own.

THE "NEW AMERICAN".....

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We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster