IMMIGRATION BILL DEAD FOR NOW

Well, the illegal alien amnesty bill is dead in the United States Senate, at least for awhile. The credit should go to the grassroots, who flooded their elected representatives with emails, regular mails, phone calls and various forms of harassment to let them know how unpopular the law is with the general public.

I think one of the main things that bothers me about legalizing the estimated 12 million people who are here from South of the Border is that there is no incentive for them to assimilate into our society. I don't want to become part of Mexico, I want their people to melt into our society.

I was reading an article earlier this month about how one reason that Muslim immigrants to this country frequently do not become part of our society is that they now have Arab language TV stations that they can listen to that pump them full of the same anti-West diatribes that they were exposed to in their native countries.

The same can be said of Hispanic immigrants. Today there are many Spanish-langauge TV and radio stations that simply didn't exist 30 or 40 years ago. Because they are in Spanish, they help defuse the incentive for younger immigrants to learn English. As long as you are getting much of your culture and entertainment in Spanish, you are not as inclined to do what it takes the learn the dominant tongue.