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I've often thought having everything in English and Spanish is partially a very cynical attempt by the powers that be to discourage illegals from learning English. If they can't speak the language and assimilate, they can be assured of a permanent underclass, working for $5 an hour. If the illegals complain, they can be easily threatened with deportation.

If that's not slavery, I don't know what is. I'd like to see some of the business criminals who hire these people do some hard time.

"I'd like to see some of the business criminals who hire these people do some hard time."

If business people can do hard time, say goodbye to employers ever hiring anyone of Hispanic descent again.

Businesses (including your local fast food stand) are just not equipped to be able to determine if someone's ID is a fake.

And if prison is the result of making a mistake about where someone is from, nobody will hire any Latino, period.

What about credit card peonage? You can make much more off a middle-class guy with a $80K balance than you'll ever get from a minimum-wage slave, especially if you raise the interest rate to 28%.

Hiring illegal immigration is a modern form of virtual slavery. Slaves may have been killed for not working, but an illegal immigrant ‘voluntarily” leaves his family and homeland for fear of death from starvation and or poverty.

Slaves from Africa were sold by the rulers in their homeland, while illegal immigrants with their remittances make payment to the ruling class in Mexico, leaving Mexico with extra cash to spend on their elite class since they are paying nothing to their poor.

This kind of modern day slavery, where the slaves are made to pay for themselves in the form of remittances is even worse than the slavery of old, at least the slave owners housed their slaves in the past, instead of passing the housing and social care to the US middle class.

But in pre-civil war era it took a group known as the Radical Republicans to stop slavery, so where are the Radical Republicans today?

If they can't speak the language and assimilate, they can be assured of a permanent underclass, working for $5 an hour.

That's life in the "new America". According to George Bush, this may be exactly what he wants as he extolls the wonders of the hispanic culture.

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.

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

I've often thought having everything in English and Spanish is partially a very cynical attempt by the powers that be to discourage illegals from learning English.

That makes little or no sense.

Let's say that I show you a word in a language you don't speak. Will you know what it says? Of course not. If I show you that word over and over, does it mean you'll figure it out? Probably not.

Now I show you the word in BOTH the foreign language and English. Behold - now you have the foreign word, AND it's English translation.

How is that so hard to figure out?