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■ 10 December 2007 | 1:11 AM

Karmic blowback

Listening to and reading the hateful vitriol against undocumented immigrants, a person unfamiliar with U.S. history might conclude that we find ourselves innocent of any wrongdoing in this regard.

No mention is made about how we took this land by force from the indigenous population, took half of Mexico in a war we precipitated, used slaves to build our economy and sucked the life's blood (resources, labor, environment and right to self-determination) out of Latin America and elsewhere via free trade, economic restructuring scams and military interventions.

Seems illegal immigrants may be karmic blowback that our history of selfishness and greed has spawned.

Ron Stone

Virginia Beach

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Sometimes I wish...

Submitted by davetul on Thu, 12/13/2007 at 2:41 pm.

that there was a way for all the US citizens that are actually happy to be one could all just group up and continue our way of life, and the rest of you that hate the country, everything it stands for, and look at it as the cause of all problems can have their own new country. You can call it USSA. You can provide everything for free to everyone, so long as those that can work do just that. I think it'll be a grand social experiment, and maybe you can make it work a little better than the russians did when they tried it.

Yes, our own economic

Submitted by A Markowitz on Wed, 12/12/2007 at 7:27 am.

Yes, our own economic policies and history of interference in the affairs of countries south of our stolen border are to blame for the influx of people seeking to support themselves.

Another Irony about Mexican immigration is that these "invading foreigners" are, for the most part, indigenous Americans (Athapascan). Like other indigenous Americans, Mexicans have been here throughout our history.

The way it is: Factual History:

Submitted by Craig Paskewic on Tue, 12/11/2007 at 3:04 pm.

The Mexicans were colonized by the Spaniards in the early 16th century and its indigenous population were either killed or assimilated into the "Spanish culture" not the United States.

In the early 1800’s, Napoleon (uhm...pretty sure he was French)– took the majority of the unsettled areas in what was then northern Mexico. Years later, the United States of America had taken control of those lands…from the French adn whatever Mexican/Spaniard mix was there.

Look. In all of mankind’s history, one culture or another has attacked and dominated another. Countries were conquered and the spoils went to the winner.

It wasn’t until the conclusion of WWII that the U.S., instead