re: Hispanic Grocery stores randomly popping up every where

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Hell, the "Natives" won't work. Somebody needs to supply our products.
Natives have EBT cards and a disability check.

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Natives will work but not for the slave wages that illegal immigrants will. There's no denying we have problems with our native population. So is the answer to ignore them and import millions of people who will also leach off our welfare system and turn states blue?

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When whites do the same thing in minority neighborhoods, it's called gentrification by people like you and demonized

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I couldn't give 2 shits about where whites open businesses.

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Leave it to BayouBlitz to miss the point of an argument.

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OK. What is the central point in the OP?

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OK. What is the central point in the OP?

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It's not about restaurants and what sort of food they serve. It's about people not assimilating. Not learning the native language? Flying your own nation's flags? Not adopting native customs?

Commonalities amongst the citizenry are essentially the social fabric that holds communities together. You don't need everyone to be exactly alike, but you do need most people to line up on most issues. Language, music, sports, dress, food, there's a whole list of things that Americans do share in common.

Having pockets of non-assimilating immigrants who do not share the majority of those things are just holes in our social fabric. Sure, it can take a few holes here and there, but we're importing, illegally and at our own expense mind you, millions of immigrants into our country each year. If a single family moves into a neighborhood and is surrounded by American culture, they'll assimilate. If hundreds of families move into an area in quick succession there's no longer pressure to adopt American cultural norms because there are plenty of families similar to you nearby. You don't need to learn English, there are already businesses that speak your own language nearby. You don't need to develop a taste for American interests and entertainment, there are lots of people around you that already share your own nation's interests and entertainment.

Too many holes in our social fabric will have negative consequences. Just like you're not going to be close with someone who you have nothing in common with, communities without similarities aren't going to get along as well as communities that share a lot in common.

I’ve quit paying taxes, they can suck my dick. I can win a jury trial in the panhandle of Florida with a jury of working class Americans. This government no longer represents me.

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I don't hate anyone. I dislike people who have no respect for this nation or its laws.

I can make an economic argument: "At the start of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration for the United States – at the federal, state, and local levels – was at least $150.7 billion." (The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers | 2023 Cost Study)

I can make the crime argument: "Increased Illegal Immigration Brings Increased Crime: Almost 2/3 of Federal Arrests Involve Noncitizens" (Heritage Foundation, 2023)

I can make an assimilation argument: It's a problem of volume. When you have a large wave of immigrants with a distinct culture, they'll feel less social pressure to assimilate if they need only ever rely on fellow immigrants for social needs. The larger and more distinct the immigrant group, the less likely they are to assimilate. This isn't a new problem in America; we've seen this before with other waves of immigrants (e.g. Italians, Germans, Irish). The difference then was that those waves ended.

But I don't think I need to make any of those arguments to justify my stance on zero tolerance. American citizens don't need a list of reasons for why they have the right to decide who enters this country. Americans don't have the right to enter into Canada and demand to be accommodated. The same is true here. How many states need to turn blue before people realize the problem we're facing?

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Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

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How many states need to turn blue before people realize the problem we're facing?

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Here's a look at the governments to our immediate south in Central America:

Mexico: left-wing government
Guatemala: just elected a leftist as President
Honduras: left-wing government
Nicaragua: socialist dictatorship
Costa Rica: left-wing government
Panama: left-wing government

Americans think that because Hispanics are Catholic and religious, they're conservative. What we don't understand is that Marxist liberation theology permeated the Catholic Church in Latin America from the 1960's onwards. There's a reason every Spanish-speaking country in Central America (save for El Salvador) is ruled by leftists.

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Having pockets of non-assimilating immigrants who do not share the majority of those things are just holes in our social fabric. Sure, it can take a few holes here and there, but we're importing, illegally and at our own expense mind you, millions of immigrants into our country each year. If a single family moves into a neighborhood and is surrounded by American culture, they'll assimilate. If hundreds of families move into an area in quick succession there's no longer pressure to adopt American cultural norms because there are plenty of families similar to you nearby. You don't need to learn English, there are already businesses that speak your own language nearby. You don't need to develop a taste for American interests and entertainment, there are lots of people around you that already share your own nation's interests and entertainment.

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All that from a grocery store?

Look, I get that assimilation is important, but so is a tapestry of mixed inputs.

You want monoculture? Move to Northern Minnesota where all the food is meat and potatoes, ketchup is "spicy", Polish is "ethnic", the music is interchangeable, and the people are so damn sure that they are the enlightened ones because they have never had their worldviews challenged. You'd love it here. All white people.

Jewish quarters are some of the most fascinating places to visit in European towns and cities. Same with Chinatown, Little India, or Arab Street in Singapore. Hell, for that matter, there are communities inside the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims, and they get along a lot better than media would have you believe.

Now, if places are creating closed off ghettos where outsiders are intimidated and targeted, or if they refuse to learn our language, that's fair to criticize. That being said, it's also something where the comfort of your own language does not mean that it's "easy" to get by without learning the local lingo. When I lived in Japan, I could get by without knowing any Japanese. That didn't make it "easy", and I still worked to learn it. I just didn't show up knowing it and I spent time with other English speakers because it got exhausting to struggle ALL the time with a new language.

To rail against them for being different AND working to be part of America? You sound silly.

Why is that power bottom?