I fully understand how american born adults may feel about the NEW wave of inmigrants in this country.
Their land, their traditions, their costums and pictoresc towns have all of a sudden been changed, by hordes of short, dark and odd looking people who come from places that before all this happened, they might not even have ever heard of!
But the truth is this: they are inmigrants, such as your fathers and great grandfathers once where, and they have come to this country on the same principle, that your founding fathers so dearly protected in their famously written documents.
If the US of A would've taken action to stop the 'latino invation' in the 70's, it might've just worked. But I do believe firmly that any american dreaming of the nation as it once was, with no latinos coming in, is just doing that: dreaming.
And the USA can not play innocent on this issue. Many, many, many of the Guatemalan and Salvadorean people who came to America, came fleeding from a civil war which was sponsoured by the USA in the first place. Americans enjoyed for decades the position given by their allies' struggles to fight communism on their own soils, never stopping to think for a second, what terrible places these 'freedom fighting' places where to live for the natives.
Did Reagan stop for a second and think of the Guatemalan families who were living in their own land, minding their own business while giving millions to arm the nation against communism?
So my belief is this: you can not put down a People. They have been empovered for decades, so if they have found prosperity in this nation by coming here to work, then so be it, and God bless them for looking for a better future. God Almighty shall protect them for their cause is a good one, and one of Divine justice.
The invasor has been invaded, and there is just nothing that can be done anymore. Any latino who is deported leaving families, money or a job here, will simply cross the boarder again.
If you believe in the God you profess, and if you believe in the very principles this nation was founded upon, then you might have to look at the 'illegals' by a different point of view.
Of all the nations, this was the one founded upon the principle of looking for a better future than that found in their own countries.
Latinos deserve a chance, and they have taken it. Already, they are the biggest minority in America, and their children, are American children. As American, as Mr. Bush, or let's say, as Mr. Obama, another American, son of an inmigrant.
After all, aren't all men created equal?