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Entry: Jonah Goldberg Takes on Ron Paul Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/jonah_goldberg_takes_on_ron_paul#11717 Post contents: Peter RV et al, I already speak Spanish, so if your pessimistic prediction is correct, I should be okay! However, I am not a pessimist, and I believe that there is still an opportunity to reverse the current immigration patterns...maybe not a great chance, but a chance nevertheless. Another point: there seems to underlie at least some of the discussion, at least on the part of a couple of posters, that Mexican/Latin American immigration into the USA is a "good thing" because it brings in more Catholics, and that will somehow help reshape the USA. As a traditionalist Catholic myself let me differ: most of the Mexicans I encounter here in North Carolina (and it is a sizeable number) carry with them only the most rudimentary mix of Catholicism and native cults. Despite what some "conservatives" suggest, once here they become pawns of the Left, their Catholicism notwithstanding. I don't think wishful thinking or pandering will change that. I do not mean to criticize those who come looking for work and a better life; I don't blame them. But immigration is not the panacea that some seem to suggest to cure our moral ills. It is and continues to be destructive of what is left of our social fabric and can only engender more serious problems in the future. I do, however, blame the larger employers and businesses that lure these poor people across the border, house them in less than human living conditions, and exploit them for all they are worth. Sent at: 2008 07 25