Submitted by Alan, Dec 10, 2007 09:34

One comment said, in part: "Don't forget that there is no famine or civil war in Mexico, Guatamala, El Salvador (currently), Venezuala, or China. It is up to these people to have the guts to improve their own countries instead of breaking our laws." Brave man! Let him stand up again the Communist Party of China, if he were Chinese! I don't know about Venezuela -- where most people are impoverished despite new funds and programs the Chavez government is sending -- but Central American and Mexico are still lands where many go hungry and night, and where there is little hope of finding remunerative employment. Subsidized U.S. corn and (as here) cheap Chinese goods have flooded Mexico and hurt campesinos and (now ex-)industrial workers. Oh, and Mexicans have stood up, a majority clearly voting twice for PRD presidents, only to have the Mexican ruling class pulling a GWBush on them, and the U.S. political and media embracing the usurpers.

How about those "investors" who can get U.S. residence status for themselves and their families if they put up a cool $500,000? What would we have done without those motels and dry cleaning establishments populated by such foreign investors? Yet, with their money, they can leap in front of others for legal status. Doesn't that bother our nativists? Or is the U.S. simply for sale?

As for Huckabee, this moral and intellectual (imagine, denying evolution) huckster hiding in clerical garb would overturn U.S. law on dual nationality by effecitvely banning it. He would bar a U.S. citizen from using the passport of any other nation. Typically if not universally, nations require that their citizens use that nation's passport on entering that country. I know that both the U.S. and Mexico specifically so require. Thus, a binational US-Israel or US-Mexico or US-Canada dual citizen would use a U.S. passport on entering the U.S., but the passport of the other nation on entering that nation.

Illegal immigration into the U.S. is a push-pull reality. The push -- lack of opportunity and oppressive home country political systems. The pull? U.S. businesses and private citizens (seeking cheap lawn care, nannies, roofing services, etc.) eager for hard working, defenseless near-slaves pay more for unskilled labor than home country wages for university graduates.

U.S. citizens with Spanish-speaking nationality origins (or ancestors) are a very diverse group, but, except for those favored Cubans, GOP politicians are helping to unit these disparite peoples -- against GOP narrowmindedness.

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