Note to the Miami Herald

I don't understand the point of this article.  Am I supposed to empathize with someone who enters this country illegally, or stays in this country illegally, and then plots to illegally smuggle her children here?

I have just two words for people who miss their children because they've been living in this country illegally for years:  GO HOME!

How about some sympathy for the many people who try to play by the rules when coming to this country?  Is it fair to them that our weepy, liberal press would reward those whose first act upon entering the United States is to deliberately violate the law?

And I loved this nugget: "Without command of the language, most feel isolated from the rest of the community."  Huh?  In Miami?  You've got to be kidding!

The only folks who feel "isolated" by a language barrier in this town are the non-Spanish speakers.

UPDATE:  Related news from Michelle Malkin.  I should point out that I am not an "anti-immigrant."  I'm married to an immigrant, and by choice I live in a city that is pretty much politically dominated by immigrants.  But one of the reasons I chose to live here is that I want my children to be mentally prepared for the kind of situation they may face pretty much anywhere in America once they become adults; i.e., that they may have to deal with living among people who do not share their culture, language, or civic values.

We need to seriously consider whether we are committing national suicide by allowing so many aliens -- who are mostly here for economic reasons, who do not have much of an interest in our civic life and who, contrary to popular myth, do not pay taxes -- to run roughshod over our laws.

This is not just a matter of replacing the genetic stock of the population.  It is about what kind of civic mentality we want to have to keep our country stable and strong.  An immigrant lawyer from Colombia once remarked to me that he found it disturbing how so many immigrants from Latin America bring with them the same pathologies that they are supposedly trying to escape.  We do not want to become another Latin American country, but that could happen in 20 or 50 years if current trends continue.