Looking at the history of North America we see that large-scale immigration has always had negative effects on the region’s native population. 13,000 years ago America’s first immigrants came from Northeast Asia to become the ancestors of today’s Indians. They hunted the large mammals into extinction and seriously reduced the life expectancy of others. Next the mass immigration from Western Europe came and had catastrophic effects on the Indians. In 1492 the Indian population was estimated at six million. By 1910, when the U.S. Bureau of the Census made its first effort to count the Indians, they only found 266,000. European settlers kept coming and in less than 300 years the Indians’ way of life was destroyed. When Southern and Eastern Europeans began migrating in large numbers, the Western Europeans felt threatened. This time the natives were more numerous, better organized, and better educated than the immigrants. The natives were worried that the new immigrants would undermine the institutions and traditions that had made America successful. Also, American workers worried about losing their jobs. After the depression of the 1890s, Congress made serious attempts to restrict immigration. First they voted to exclude immigrants who were illiterate. Then, in 1921, they passed quotas based on the national origin of the immigrant. At this time immigration did not cause unemployment but it did impede the growth of blue-collar workers’ wages and led to ethnic conflict making union organizing more difficult. However, the new immigrants blended with their Western European cousins and the country as a whole became richer, better educated, and more democratic. Through ethnic assimilation, these second generation immigrants always became fluent in English and adopted the American way of life as their own. No linguistic minority dominated any large American city the way Spanish speakers now dominate Miami and most U.S.-Mexican border towns. Mexican immigration poses challenges, to our policies and our identity, in a way nothing else has in the past. In the first 200 years of the U.S. about 240,000 people immigrated each year. In 2002, immigration increased our population by nearly 3 million. Hispanics are the largest group of first generation Americans. In 2002, 72 percent of Hispanic births were to Mexican women, up 66 percent from 1990. One in every ten babies born in the U.S. has a mother who immigrated to this country. Six in ten of these babies are Mexican. The Mexican population growth rate is exponential. In January 2004 the Census Bureau says the U.S. will be recording a birth every 8 seconds, a death every 13 seconds, and adding an immigrant every 25 seconds. The result is an increase of 1 person every 12 seconds. CNN reported an estimated 91 illegal Mexicans come to Georgia each day. Three million new Mexicans will be added to our population this year. One million are legal, another one million will be illegal, and nearly another million will be born in the U.S. Mexicans make up 62 percent of the illegal immigrants entering our country. Illegal Mexican immigrants were nine times as numerous as the next largest contingent, from El Salvador. Hispanics in America, now numbered at 35 million, have outgrown the Afro-Americans, numbered at 33 million, to become the largest minority in the U.S. The Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that roughly 12 million immigrants, mostly Mexicans, were currently living illegally in the U.S. The 2000 Census report showed that as the Mexicans moved into urban centers, the white and black natives moved out. Most of these Mexicans have no education and seek underground employment in agriculture, landscaping, or construction. As they dominate an area, educated Mexicans move in to assume positions in the local government. They then organize the legal and illegal immigrants through cell phones, radio, and computer blogs as witnessed by the recent public demonstrations and raising of Mexican flags. Their first big demonstration showed much anti-American sentiment. The American flag hung upside-down under the Mexican flag, posters wishing the rapid demise of Americans, obscene gestures, and flagrant comments to reporters were all documented on videotape. Their leaders realized the negative impression would not sway Congress to grant amnesty or a worker program for the 12 million illegals. They swiftly arranged for the second nationwide demonstrations to show a different motive. The demonstrators wore all white, carried hundreds of American flags, and said positive things like they came here to work and do jobs Americans did not want. It was a great counter-measure as the spiritual side of a large number of Americans had blinded them to the realities of psychological warfare. In California no school system has ever experienced such a large influx of students from a single foreign country. Instead of assimilating our language and culture, they are changing the American system to a Mexican community. As more immigrants pour into these Mexican communities, they can work and live without ever learning English. Many border states are approaching a 50% Mexican population. In the next few decades, the Mexicans will be the majority race in California and most southwestern states. According to anthropological research, by the end of this century, Mexicans will be the dominant race in the U.S. Mexican President Vincente Fox wants to remove all restrictions on the movement of Mexicans into the U.S. And why not when in the last decade Mexican immigrants sent more than 45 billion dollars to relatives south of the border. Citi Bank reported 960 million dollars was sent from the state of Georgia to Mexico in 2003. The Mexican migrant workers used to return to Mexico for the winter months, but with heightened security at the borders, most of them stay here increasing the demographic for Mexican communities retaining their national identity. The battles fought include American schools adding Spanish to the core curriculum, local bank ATM’s asking if you want to conduct your transaction in Spanish, electronic answer machines asking you to press 2 for Spanish, duplicate instructions in Spanish and English on most products, road signs in Spanish, more Spanish speaking radio and television stations, and the high rate of newly owned Mexican businesses across America are all victories for the Mexicans. They will control America by simply out -numbering us and use our own democracy to dominate us. The strategy of warfare without conventional weapons has the American people as duped as the Trojan horse. Americans are rushing to aid their conquerors in the name of human dignity and Political Correctness without even considering the veracity of scientific data from their own anthropologists. If President Bush and some Congressmen think they will get the Hispanic vote by granting the illegal immigrants amnesty, the consequence is tantamount to surrender by the American people. Those 12 million plus the 35 million already here will elect their own officials and get an insurmountable grip on America. A study by Mexico’s National Population Council concluded: "the migratory phenomenon between Mexico and the U.S.A. is structural and permanent. The steady, massive flow of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants into the U.S.A. cannot be stopped and will not decrease." The long-term consequences of Mexican immigration are devastating to the environment and to the wellbeing of the United States. World population has more than doubled in just 30 years. Human numbers are adversely impacting water quality, wildlife habitat, and contributing to global climate change. On the local level, we are faced with traffic gridlock, loss of green space, and air quality problems. Depressed wages, due to cheap labor, and social disparity, a growing gap between those who have and the have-nots, are just a few of the storms brewing the U.S. is now facing. In almost every recent year, the Border Patrol has stopped about one million people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico. It is estimated that nearly one million make it across illegally. If over one million Mexican soldiers crossed the border with weapons, Americans would treat it as a major threat to their national security and react accordingly. The invasion of over three million Mexicans a year is a comparable threat to American societal security and Americans should react against it with comparable vigor. Mexican immigration looms as a unique and disturbing challenge to our cultural integrity, our national identity, and potentially to our future as a country. Important and Forgotten Words: Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN "In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907