>>I may not know as much about the rise of Nazism as you do but I do know some, and it does not seem implausible to me that we are trending in that direction.
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>Again, I think you are really off the mark. The Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935. We are nowhere near to doing what the Nazis put into law then.
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>>BTW, please don't patronize me about border states. I know there are more Mexican-Americans in Texas anywhere other than California but it's not like they all live south of the Rio Grande. There are plenty of Mexican-Americans, legal and illegal, around here, and I live a heck of a way north of Houston. This is a national issue, not a local one.
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>My father lives in the small town of Crossville, TN, and there is a goodly number of Hispanic immigrants there, too. My point is that the border states by far bear the brunt of the cost of illegal immigration, because of the strain on educational, health, and law enforcement systems. Just absorbing the students evacuated because of Katrina put a huge strain on our schools here. Think about the millions added over the last years from immigration!
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>BTW, not to be an arse here but if they all lived south of the Rio Grande we wouldn't be having this arguement.


I was wondering when someone was going to say something about my geographic gaffe. My bad.

I don't have any numbers but suspect the disproportionate impact on the border states is not as extreme as you think it is. There are now Hispanics, legal and illegal, all over the country. And not just in 10s and 20s. I live in a formerly rural exurb of Chicago; the next town up is predominantly Hispanic. Where I referee soccer, the affluent suburb of Mundelein, I would guess a majority of the players are Hispanic. This isn't just a border issue.

Nor is there unity on the issue even in Texas. The President's views expressed last night, and going back to when he was governor of Texas and even before, were a lot more welcoming than I am hearing from the Texans here.