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There are only 100 million Mexicans. Their birth rate has plummetted in recent years. For example, if you look at a breakdown of Mexican population by 5 year age groups, one can see steadily decreasing increase rates of 9.5%, 6.4%, 4.4%, 1.8% and 0.2% between the 25-29, 20-24, 15-19, 10-14, 5-9 and 0-4 age groups. Then when you consider that the Mexican death rate has dropped steadily during these decades AND that the older groups are much more likely to have emigrated to the US, you can see that Mexico is already close to a negative growth rate. The Arab states are more populous and still have higher birth rates (though, those are dropping also everywhere but the West Bank/Gaza).

Unlike America, immigrants aren't flocking in to be Mexicanized. America is three times as large. Mexicans under the age of 10 in 2000 were 22.8 million. Americans under the age of 10 in 2000 were 39.7 million. Yes, some were immigrants. Still, many more Americans are being born each year than Mexicans. The current Mexican birth rate on a much smaller population is insufficient to make it come anywhere near the US in population.

There's also an Americanization of Mexico occurring. Interactions are never two way streets. American capitalism and ideas are flooding Mexico like never before. It's one reason loons like Hannity's guest are upset. They sense the tide of history going against them. So they scream louder with sillier and sillier ideas.

In this country, despite efforts of radicals, the bilingual education ghetto has been broken. The children of immigrants are now learning English better than they did before in California and other states. It's not perfect, but it's a start.

Mexicans aren't flying planes into our buildings. They aren't trying to buy or develop weapons of mass destruction.

Mexico is a democracy. Fox, for all his flaws, represents a change in the formerly one-party control of Mexico. It also respects property rights and capitalism. It doesn't have to shell it's own people with artillery or poison gas to control it's people.

Your statement that Mexico is a greater threat is not based on reality. The statements of Azteca pseudo-intellectuals or a disappointed Mexican fan after the World Cup loss aren't enough to

Your statement that Mexico is a greater threat is not based on reality.

I guess it all depends on what you consider to be a threat. Mexican illegal immigration has decimated social services in California, Arizona, and Texas. Perhaps other states. Mexico actively encourages their uneducated, unskilled hordes to illegally come up here so that they can steal jobs and send their ill-gotten earnings back to Mexico...thereby perpetuating the dilemma. Mexico's main export is this nightmare. If that ain't a form of terrorism I don't know what it is. Mexico needs to solve it's own problems. Hopes of that are slim, though. The nation has been a complete disaster ever since it's inception. In any event, they need to confine their problem to their own territory, IMO, and it is incumbent on our government to make sure they do just that.