A recent article at opinion journal.com had the following information: Hispanics make up about 8% of the electorate in this country, and they will make up about 25% of the total population by 2050. This raises some interesting points.

If Mexicans make up only 8% of our electorate is this not a good time to close the door on illegal immigration? Do we really want to wait until, as the article suggests, Mexicans comprise 25% of our population in 2050. A quarter of the population waving Mexican flags in the streets screaming that we stole their land is not a pretty picture.

It seems like there is a whole lot more than 8% of our population who strongly favor improved border security and carefully monitored legal immigration, and that those voters would more than offset some portion of the 8% of the Hispanic electorate who would turn to democrats if the country began getting serious about protecting the borders. As it stands, it is very difficult to believe that there are not enough good people in both parties to offset any Hispanic protest vote. That may not always be the case.

As usual it is the democrats, who would politicize a goat roping contest if they smelled a few votes. They are largely responsible for making immigration a politically charged issue. If they would put the country first, the immigration issue would have been solved long ago.

Mexican President Calderon has recently said that "Mexico has no borders” and that “where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico". Racism and bigotry seem alive and well south of the border. It is another liberal feel good scheme to open the border to Mexico. As usual these fantasies wind up devastating the people they are supposed to help. As long as millions of Mexicans are allowed to crash the border, the millions left behind will never get anything out of Calderon and his cronies or any other Mexican government.