How fast it can happen
May 25, 2007 01:04 PM
In 1821, the newly independent government of Mexico hired Steven F. Austin and a few thousand Anglo Americans to do a job that ordinary Mexicans were not willing to do -- fight the Comanche and settle the wild lands of Texas. The Anglo settlers were given land at generous prices. All that they needed to do was swear an oath of allegiance to Mexico, affirm that they were Catholic, and agree to the gradual end to slavery. By 1836 (only 15 years later), those same Anglo, protestant, slave-owning settlers were rolling cannons into the Alamo and declaring independence.
Apart from the obvious economic and cultural problems with importing Mexico’s poverty problem, how wise can it be to import millions of unassimilated non-English speaking persons who have a legitimate historical grievance and claim to the land that they are occupying?
Apart from the obvious economic and cultural problems with importing Mexico’s poverty problem, how wise can it be to import millions of unassimilated non-English speaking persons who have a legitimate historical grievance and claim to the land that they are occupying?
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