[marron]

romanticizing Mother Mexico while chastising Lady Bountiful America.

I doubt Putnam actually knows any illegal Mexicans. No, they do not romanticize Mexico, they know very well what they left behind. They know very well the legal abuses that working class or poverty-class Mexicans are subjected to back home.

The hostile rhetoric you hear directed toward the United States does not come from field workers. It comes from leftist Mexican academics, leftist American academics, and people of their ilk. Leftists are leftists. They live to create enmity where there isn't any.

[morjon]

Well said!!

[spintreebob]

Well said II.

Putnam is definitely not describing Illinois, where there are many immigrants, Mexican and otherwise. Two-thirds of new HOMEONWERS in my suburb have Hispanic surnames. If they have such bad values, why did 100% vote for Bush in my area? Why did they vote for conservative O'Malley in the primary in my area?

The problem is not with the Mexican immigrants, it is with the welfare programs pushed by the white liberals.

[tdadams]

You're right. Most Mexicans who come to the U.S. are simply looking for a better life. They don't realize they're being used by the shrewd, intelligent Mexican elites who are belligerently pushing for a reconquest of America, in the area they call Aztlan.

One leader of the Aztlan idea, Armando Navarro, has ominously said "Power is not given, it's taken."

The rhetoric these people use is decidely foreceful. They're jubilant with census numbers showing an invasion of Mexicans into California. They actively plan and hope for a day when the strength of their numbers will allow them to elect de facto a U.S. Senator or Representative for the Mexican people living in the U.S.

If you're one of the Freepers who speaks spanish, check out this article:

Emigrantes en su propia tierra