OK, I'll do this once and slowly for the slow readers out there.
I challenge any of you to go to Chinatown in San Francisco (or Seattle), or Little Italy in New York, or the Cuban parts of Miami, or the northwest of Detroit (predominantly Arab), or the Scandinavian parts of many cities and towns in the upper midwest, or any number of other places in this country where large pockets of immigrants have settled over the years. There are parts of each of these areas where English is not the dominant language, where there are many people (friends and relatives) who are not there legally, and guess what? The world does not implode. They are often vibrant communities, with thousands of hard working, tax paying people who add to this country.
I'm sick and tired of the people in the southwest who feel they're the first people in the country who've been effected by immigrants. People have complained about immigrants since the beginning of this country. And yet they come, and the country is often better for them. I bet that every single one of you is descended from immigrants. They have for centuries done jobs no one else wants, worked hard to scratch out a living for their families, paid taxes, lived life, and contributed to this country.
If you suddenly ejected everyone who is here illegally, many of the lawns in this country wouldn't get mowed, most of the crops wouldn't get picked, much of the meat wouldn't get slaughtered, what remains of the garment industry would be gone, and every gas station would be left unattended. I'm sick of you right-wing nutjobs who say in one breath how wonderful the Bush tax cuts are working because they see all the help wanted signs in their town and then say in the same breath how the illegals are taking all the jobs. If you want their job so bad, how come I don't see you down at Home Depot looking for day labor in the parking lot?
People who abuse welfare do so from all ethnic groups, it's not a hispanic epidemic. Just go to New York or any other big city and you'll find them -- they look like whatever the population looks like. Thievery is race-neutral. Yes, they should be stopped and nailed for it. But to generalize and say they all have fancy cars with big wheels is just racist. You don't understand their priorities (I don't either) but that's just them being stupid, not criminal.
As for the old BS that they are sapping our resources, that's just wrong. Every study that has ever been done on this question (and there have been many) shows that illegals pay many times more in payroll taxes and FICA (social security, which they'll never collect) than the services they collect cost. In fact, many jurisdictions don't work hard to get rid of them because they are net positive for the economics of the region. To say otherwise just means you have Rush Limbaugh turned up too loud.
Finally, as to Terry and your pathetic questions. I answered two of them already. As to the other (where to find a minority neighborhood with good schools and low crime), go to any big city and there are these neighborhoods -- you just can't afford to live in them. And schools are a public responsibility, so if they stink in those neighborhoods, whose fault is it? Your "white leaders".
I can't believe you can actually feed yourself let alone type on a computer if you actually think that the world only runs right with a white face in charge. Just because that's been the case in Europe and the US for the last 400 years isn't a testament to the glory of being white but the ridiculous and systematic oppression that whites have done to all other races. And I think a few billion people in Japan, China, Korea, India, the Arab world, and on and on would object you your implication that the world simply ceases to function without a WASP in charge.
No, we shouldn't open our doors to everybody who simply walks in, but the problem is far more complicated than you guys seem to wish it was. And please, travel the country (or better yet, the world) before you regurgitate the jingoistic crap you hear on Fox.
There you go. Let the knee jerk right wing nut job rebuttals commence: