>>>I will be less terse this time because I know you are a reasonable guy. So here is why your joke offended me.
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>>>My attitude used to be about the same as expressed in the joke, i.e. not exactly pro-Hispanic. Wetbacks, busboys, lawn mowers, and why the hell do we need 50 million of them in this country? You can describe my attitude then in a word: bigot.
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>>>And then I got involved in soccer. The details aren't important but I have come to know a lot of Mexican-Americans through soccer and realize how wrong I was. If anything they are more American than the typical native-born. They came here to seek a better way of life. That is the entire tradition of this country! We all came here from somewhere else. The ones I know care deeply about their children, love their families, and bring a passion to the sport they sort of left behind, soccer. I had this really bigoted view that their views on life were different from mine. I was so wrong. We are richer for their presence among us, not poorer.
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>>>JFK: "We all share this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal." He said that in October of 1963.
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>>Mike;
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>>Sorry to have offended you and anyone else.
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>>My personal position on illegal aliens is that they should be allowed to be here. The policies and paranoia about our borders involving people that want to survive or have a better life is one that should be addressed in favor of those who wish to live here.
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>>Granted, we have to protect our residents from those who would hurt anyone in our country. Without people from other countries there would be no United States as we know it. Artificial policies that put fear into the minds of citizens concerning illegal aliens help no one.
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>>By the way I have many friends from Mexico or that live in Mexico. The person that sent me that “joke” is from Mexico. He thought it was funny. I thought it expressed the kind of help our administration would give. Nothing positive!
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>>Tom
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>No blood, no foul. No red card. I think we are still in disagreement about this but sometimes it's better to just let things go. Everyone who has chimed in has agreed with you so maybe I was in the wrong. No problem there. It's happened before and it will happen again. I just say what I think.

No problem Mike. I respect your opinion.