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Absorbing Half of Mexico Altered American Culture

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TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
If the ruling power in America possessed both . . . the right to issue orders of all kinds but also the capability and habit of carrying out those orders; if it not only laid down general principles of government but also concerned itself with the details of applying those principles; and if it dealt not only with the country’s major interests but also descended to the limit of individual interests, then liberty would soon be banished from the New World.
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835-1840]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
April 2, 2024
Absorbing Half of Mexico Altered American Culture
Proponents of America’s system of immigration controls lament what they say are “invaders” crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and entering the United States. Many of them say that this “invasion” is a conspiracy to alter the culture of the United States in a Hispanic direction. Ironically, very few, if any, of these anti-invaders ever condemn what the U.S. government did with the Treaty of …
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