On another topic ( this one at least does not make me sound like your typical airy fairy liberal canadian) I belive that we should not discriminate based on race.
Where I live in Saskatchawan(and I have heard similar stories from those of you in the southern US) I am a second class citizen in my own country because I am nonnative. It has gotten completely out of hand and it is time that we have only 2 types of people legally living in my country. Citizens with all the same rights and freedoms and for people who want to come here and work but do not want to assimilate they should be allowed work visas.

If your only interest in being in north america is because you can make money and you want to keep all your language ,culture and don't want to be part of our country why should you have the same rights as someone who wants to be part of our culture ,learn the language and make our country their home.

If you like your culture and language so much that you are unwilling to learn ours then stay in your own [censored] country if it is so great!

Don't come here and expect that we should change our culture. The idiot fanatics in the UK who demand that everyone in their adopted country live under sharia law should be immidiatly sent back.

I saw a protest where illegal immigrants in the US were marching in anger that the police would have the gall to check peoples citizenship and hold them when they cannot prove it when picked up. That seems wrong to me. Do lawbreakers have the right not to be arrested?

If I moved to central america I would expect I would have to learn spanish. Why when they come here do they not have to learn english? How are these people going to assimilate without learning the language?

I would like to see a way for immigrants to earn full citizenship with military service like the French foreign Legion. I think people who earned their citizenship would value it more than someone who stole their way in and had it given as an amnesty like a reward for bad behaviour?

I am tired of people apologizing for being white christian europeans. We acomplished more than anyone else and treated the conquered people far better than they would have treated us had the situation been reversed. Would the axtecs have treated the spanish better if they had conquered spain? There is a huge outcry about canada and the US intering Japanese during WW2 but look what the Japs did to our citizens they captured. I am sick of double standards.