More lame attempts to diss Samuel P. Huntington

From the Boston Globe's "In Mexico visit, enmity greets Harvard scholar":

Ever since the release earlier this year of his book "Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity," (excerpt online here)which argues that Mexican immigrants pose a threat to American culture, Samuel P. Huntington has been the US academic Mexicans love to hate...

The Mexican press seized on remarks he made Tuesday during a panel discussion at a three-day business conference in the [Mexican state of Veracruz], depicting him as alarmist and anti-immigrant. "Illegals: terrorist threat: Huntington" ran a frontpage headline in El Universal, the country's largest daily. Cronica, another Mexico City daily, led its culture section with a quote attributed to Huntington: "Mexicans could transport weapons of mass destruction."

...The governor of Hidalgo State, Manuel Angel Nunez Soto, called Huntington a racist, while challenging the facts behind the Harvard scholar's thesis that Mexican immigrants receive more than they give back to the United States. And Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez, a political columnist who participated in a panel discussion with Huntington, described him as "the Stephen King of political scientists," in reference to the dire predictions of his recent books...

Huntington was more concerned by the way he said the Mexican press had misquoted him to suggest he was singling out Mexicans as posing a terrorist threat. Instead, he said, he was noting the potential of a terrorist attack perpetrated by people sneaking into the United States through the porous southern border with Mexico...

..."I think Huntington makes us see our own stupidity, like the prohibition against McDonald's in Oaxaca," [Silva-Herzog] said, referring to a recent campaign to block the American fast-food chain from opening a new branch in one of Mexico's most historic cities. Silva-Herzog challenged Huntington to propose solutions to the alleged threat posed by the higher birthrate of Hispanic immigrants, as well as other perceived problems. Huntington cites figures showing Hispanic women have an average of three children, compared with 1.8 for non-Hispanic whites and 2.1 for blacks. "What does he recommend? That they sterilize the Mexicans? That they prohibit Spanish from being spoken on the street?" said Silva-Herzog.

Previous lame attempts to diss Huntington start here.

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Think we must make a national rule (on down):
20 years here as an American citizen or get zero in govt. benefs usage, including schools. [you all do know that Texas precedent used was misinterpreted and the stupid Texas state attorneys office didn't include costs to taxpayers in the case. The attorney on the other side was a S.African Jewish immigrant young attorney not even a citizen here at the time (Schrey --who is now in LA]. Damn him and the troubles he caused the Amer. taxpayers. That would cross them off our benefits and we could go from there. Another traitor attorney. They come in here and manipulate for their vested interest socialistic purposes.

Solutions for Mexico: They need only look at what their own scholars have said. They can enforce their child labor laws, and make them stricter, and we don't have to take any of their products, or allow any border-crossings to or from that country, until they do. They can support female education, instead of groveling before drug-mafia figures who dominate their politics.

Those are poverty-stricken arguments that the mexican intellectuals brainstormed. Either we let any number of Mexicans into the country, or we overthrow their government and start a program of forced sterilization on their peasantry. The horns of that false dilemma are so far apart, that one could probably think of hundreds of alternatives between the two suggested mutually exhaustive ones. If this is what the top levels of their culture can generate, it is no surprise that the average performs so defectively.