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Assimilation And Immigration

As usual, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor David Hanson hits the proverbial nail on the head about successful immigration:

But there is still a solution to the immigration problem: It involves supporting any practice that leads to the assimilation of legal Mexican immigrants into the American mainstream -- and opposing everything that does not.

Employers and La Raza activists who thrive on the current non-system might not like that approach, but it is the only way to avoid the gathering political and cultural storm.

As we've seen from second- and third-generation legal immigrants, when a person from Mexico comes to the U.S. with legal documentation, learns English and regards an unskilled job as the start, not the end, of a career, success most often follows.

Second, numbers are important. The U.S. can assimilate hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, as it does with other immigrant groups, who come legally and are integrated throughout the nation in multiethnic neighborhoods. But it cannot assimilate quickly millions of abject poor who live in apartheid communities. There the joy of reaching the U.S. is replaced by the bitterness of becoming part of its collective underclass.

Third, immigrants can survive one strike against them, maybe two -- but not three. A Mexican citizen who is here illegally might do well with fluent English and a high-school diploma. But when one is illegal, not fluent in English and without education -- and immersed with millions who share such disadvantages -- then we witness the sort of raw emotion now on display in Congress and on our streets.

Read the whole thing, then go here to learn more about what will lead to unsuccessful immigration and a backlash against the majority who come here seeking a better life -- not an entitlement or some crazy idea of recapturing "stolen" land.

1 comments Jake McCafferty last posted at 7:59 PM
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I don't know the details of all this, but I just don't get it. Just from what I've heard on the news, they want equal rights for illegals? If that is the case it is crap. I heard one teenage girl a couple weeks ago during those walkouts compare it to the equal rights struggle for African-Americans in the 60's. To compare the two and equate them is rediculous, not even close to being the same.

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