On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:16:37 -0800, Matt Whiting wrote
(in article ):

C J Campbell wrote:

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:01:08 -0800, LWG wrote
(in article ):


I think what Jay says makes a lot of sense.

The essence of America was that its immigrant population willingly
abandoned
many or most aspects of the culture it left.


However, the wisecrack aside, I think what you are missing is that a lot of
these Spanish speakers are not immigrants. They were born here. They have
lived here for hundreds of years, speaking nothing but Spanish. They were
here before the Mayflower. We have a whole territory of nothing but Spanish
speaking people. We have at least a few states where Spanish speaking
people
are, if not the majority, at least a very large part of the population.

But, if you just want to expel Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Southern
California,
and parts of Arizona and Texas and give it all back to Mexico just so you
can
call those people immigrants, well then you might have a point.


Well, that is a very compelling proposition! :-)

Matt

Only if you get to throw Washington, DC into the deal. We declare that a
Spanish speaking territory (because it largely is) and give it to Mexico. The
only requirement is that anyone serving in office or working there in any
capacity, paid or unpaid, or who has ever worked there, will be declared a
resident of Mexico and be deported from the US as an undocumented alien.

Once we are rid of them, we can turn on the telephone sanitizers,
hairdressers, marketing people, and other useless members of society like a
pack of dogs. Maybe even send them to another planet. :-)

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