The impact of illigal immigration from Mexico is not equally distrubuted.

People in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have seen no change in their states' demographics in 40 years, therefore they feel comfortable labling the people of sourthern California and Arizona "xenophobes" or worse.

It is different for someone who has watched their high school go from the "92nd percentile" scholastically to the "12th percentile" in that same time. The schools in California are now rated below Mississippi and Arkansas, in many cases, and have dropout rates over 50%.

The United States cannot compete with Japan, China, India, and others countries now, and the future is probably worse.

The immigration from distant countries has often been by the best, brightest and most educated of their country. It was once called thet "Brain Drain", where doctors and scientists from India, Indonesia and other countries came here, to the detriment of their native countries.

One problem is that Mexico sends us their misfits, criminals and uneducated. There are no doctors or scientists. There are no wealthy successful (non-criminal) businessmen seeking accross the US border at night or riding the freight trains up from Mexico City.

We need a good dialogue in the United States. We have a real problem here, and hissing and spitting at anyone who says someting you don't want to here gets us nowhere.