Having been born in officially bilingual New Mexico, I never worried whether Latinos I met belonged to old families that were here when the U. S. stole the region from Mexico, or were descendants of immigrants from the period when no one worried about them coming, or were later 'legal' immigrants, or were Mexican citizens working here and contributing to the economy.

The U. S. of A. has become, however, a magnet for too many poor according to some Americanos, and the tide must be rolled back. It is forgotton that the 19th c. and early 20th c. saw a flood of immigrants who only had to show that they had no pestilent disease and were neither black nor oriental.

It seems now that Congress will be unable to act this session, which may be a good thing. Rational thought may yet prevail.