I’ve listened to Ruben and spoken with him as well and it has actually been seldom that we have disagreed on matters of immigration. I think his POV is not idealistic or ideological but realistic. He is a responsible and thoughtful commenter and is far from trying to advocate on behalf of mojados. He, like I, recognizes the difference between those Mexican nationals who come here with no intention whatsoever to integrate except with gangs and perpetrate identity fraud, and those who overstay visas not flaunting the system.
What Navarette understands as I do growing up in Los Angeles is that there are a very broad set of people who come here from Mexico and South & Central America under any number of circumstances but the way to succeed here is fairly straight and narrow. Speak the language, obey the law, respect your neighbors. A few radicals are making it bad for a sensible plurality – just like VDare makes us conservatives look bad.
