[blackeagle]

key word... ILLIGAL

[Drango]

Maybe she could help him figure out what to do next.

Uhhhhh.... apply to college in Mexico?

[AdamSelene235]

[Texas_Jarhead]

looks like another puff piece attempting to educate as to the great contribution of illegals... looking through Westwood's archive I see that they have written just as many articles on the negative aspects of illegal immigrant invasion as they have positive puff pieces - NOT!

[konaice]

It was an American crowd, cheering for what looked like a quintessentially American spectacle. Would the crowd have cheered as loudly if they knew the full story of the teenager holding the American flag? Pablo didn't think so

All you have to do is read one line like that and you know where the article is going.

More liberal drivel.

Illegal. He should have no problem getting into a Mexican University.

[dennisw]

And legalize thousands of Mexi gang bangers too I suppose. There are great colleges in Mexico this kid can go to.

[DoughtyOne]

Some people just can't focus on the fact that millions of Pablos are soaking our tax system at the rate of $8000 plus per year for a free education. Pablo belongs in Mexico, not the United States. Perhaps his parents were Mexican citizens and Pablo was born here. I don't really care.

I'm not going to read some bull sh-- article that is intended to make me want to legalize between ten and twenty million invaders from Mexico, that are sucking the lifeblood out of my state and nation.

If Mexican citizens want to come here, they should go through the legal steps to do it LEGALLY. And they should not be given preferential treatment over the citizens of any other foreign nation. If they are here illegaly, they, their offspring, their moms and pops, their grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins nieces and nephews should go the hell home.

Anyone care to figure the cost of educating seven million children per year. It's $56 billion dollars. Now, do you want to talk about healthcare for these citizens of the nation to our south?

[NonValueAdded]

He's ILLEGAL. If the author wants someone to blame, look to the parents. They chose to enter the country illegally and drag along their kids.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

CRIMINAL INVADER

[Fatalis]

Dressed up like a soldier, Pablo looked like a young man who was willing to die for his country.

Then he should go back to it.

[atari]

tough break kid..why not pay your way through 2 years of community college and 2 years for your BA.

there is plenty of affordable colleges even if you dont get state/fed funded breaks.

when you get to be a MD, you'll be able to pay off those loans no problem.

[Missouri]

Latino community remained divided, with plenty of U.S.-born Hispanics privately expressing views that sounded just as anti-immigrant as those held by conservative Anglos.

The author makes this sound like a bad thing.

The term "anti-immigrant" is very misleading. I'm sure that what the author wanted, blur the line between legal and illegal immigrant.

[Fatalis]

plenty of U.S.-born Hispanics privately expressing views that sounded just as anti-immigrant as those held by conservative Anglos.

Anglo is no more synonymous with Caucasian than Mexican is with Hispanic.

[spodefly]

Bleeding heart propaganda.

[sweetliberty]

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That is one of the most breathtakingly nauseating articles I've read in awhile. I know the intention is to make everybody feel sorry for the poor boy who has done everything "right", and while I agree that it is unfair to the kids of illegals, that doesn't alter the fact that they are in the position they are in because their parents committed a crime. It is his parents who passed this boy's sentence on him. Why should American taxpayers have to pay for it?

[Blue Screen of Death]

Pablo, and many others like him, are the kind of people Mexico needs. It would be selfish for us to keep him here and deprive his countrymen and women of this kind of talent.

Jorge Bush sir, if you love Mexico and want to see it prosper you need to make sure Pablo and all of his brothers and sisters can return to Mexico and work at building a powerful strong free country. You need to protect the border to help Mexico by stopping the best and finest Mexico has to offer from leaving their homeland. You will be doing it for the children of Mexico.

That, folks, is as PC as I can get.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Reads like something written by a graduate of the Jayson Blair School of Journalism.

[mo]

Inquiring minds would like to know....is Pablo for real...or is he a media creation...ala Jayson Blair..???

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

I just googled the author - Helen Thorpe.

She is married to Mayor Hickenlooper of Denver-the man who just banned Christmas from the parade.

I doubt Pablo exists.

[Dat Mon]

I scanned through your about page. On it, you have a quote of Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists of all time.

Do you have any concept of how a scientist is trained to think...to examine...to critique. Do you understand the basis of the scientific method?

Do you apply the same rigor to your theories that Feynman did to his?

All you have posted on this thread is narrative, philosophy...theology...ideology. Do you care, as Feynman did...that your theories have any basis in reality?

If you do care...then you must apply the equivalent of mathematical rigor to your comments. You must explain for example, how your immigration system can function in a real country, within the rule of law. Not how you WANT it to work, but how it DOES work.

Philosophers must apply rules of logic to determine if their premises are logically consistent within themselves, and bear relevance to common human knowledge and experience.

As an example, if in your philosophy you were to deny the requirements for logic, reason, morality and the rule of law in a society...then you negate the tradition of philosophy going back to Plato, and you postulate an abstract system which is not real.

You might as well be writing poetry.