We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/the_immigration_1.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:29:06 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Just in case you're surfing through here - the Armorer is all for legal immigration with assimilation. Assimilation does not have to mean subsuming the past - as many waves of integrated immigrants show. It does mean becoming Americans and identifying with America, not carving out an enclave of where you came from and bringing with you all the pathologies that made where you come from such a wonderful place that you... left. Learn the language, don't demand that everybody else learn yours. Learn the systems, don't demand that they be changed to look like what you left (Mind you,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/the_immigration_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/the_immigration_1.html Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:03:43 -0600 Ain't the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo still in effect? Did we not easily defeat the Mexican Armed Forces in 1848 because their hearts were not in the fight, their corrupt oligarchic government being much the same as the one they have now? Did we not turn down the opportunity to annex all of Mexico, in favor of just grabbing those portions with hardly any Mexicans in them? Were not even the upper-class Mexicans in California so fed up with Santa Ana and his ilk that they didn't put up much of a fight and happily switched their allegiance? Does not El Presidente Jorge Arbusto have entirely too much fellow-feeling for his rich friends and relations, south of the border? Yah, I know, I voted for him twice http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/the_immigration_1.html#comment-61194 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/the_immigration_1.html#comment-61194 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:33:40 -0600