Originally Posted By: the G-man
Let's face it. If people want to come here, learn the language and work hard, I think we'd all welcome them. Hell, we'd probably all be in favor of amnesty and/or open borders.

But time and time again we hear that isn't what's happening.

I don't think it's xenophobic or racist for WB, or anyone else, to expect that the current wave of immigrants follow the same procedures as past waves from places like Italy, China or Germany.


Like I just mentioned in my response to WB, those groups took decades, some MANY decades to fully assimilate into the larger American culture. With the U.S. hispanic population, you're talking about an immigrant wave that pretty much began in the 1970's and peaked in the mid '80's. And as those Census figures show, success and integration is occurring. My problem with WB's rhetoric rests in the fact that to him, these sorts of integrations have to happen immediately and orderly or else he thinks he's being invaded.