Glenn Spencer to The Economist Let the huddled masses in The huddle masses from Mexico started flooding into California in the 1960s following the liberalization of U.S. immigration laws. No sane middle class person now sends a child to Los Angeles schools which have fallen from the finest to the worst in the nation. As a result, the California university system may abandon meritocracy altogether. No sane person walks the streets at night, as gang murders number in the thousands and are on the rise. Travel times on our roads rival that of the horse and buggy.
Millions live in abject poverty, eyeing their middle class neighbors with envy.
California has run out of electricity, and water will not be far behind. Mexicans parade through the streets bearing icons of a pre- Columbian earth goddess. Already the county's largest minority group, Latinos now account for about one of every three residents, compared with one in four a decade ago, according to the 2000 census. From The Economist - London Let the huddled masses in Hijack a plane in Afghanistan and fly it to London. Board a rusting tub in Turkey and be wrecked off the coast of Italy or washed up in France.