So you have to ask yourself, we've been arguing about illegal immigrants in this country for more than 30 years, can we afford to spend another generation arguing about it?
The answer is that we can't, bacause as a stand-alone people, with no Hispanics to bolster our numbers, we don't have another generation left in us as a culture.
So we look back over the way the nation was built, forget the legal aspects for a second.
We have no melting pot, we have a quilt.
Those patches are everywhere to be seen.
Every pizzeria, every Chinese restaurant, every Greek Orthodox Church, every Synagogue, every Cathedral, every Columbus Day parade, every Carnaval in Miami.
Everybody comes here and slaps a patch onto that quilt and grabs a piece of the dream. Everybody adds to the culture, very few ever came here and faded away.
The ten or so million Hispanics here in the nation are irreplaceable in our fight to survive as a culture.
We need them because it would take way too long to replace them PLUS bring in the additional millions we're going to need in the very near future.