Peggy Noonan has an editorial on immigration today:
[T]here’s a part of the [immigration] debate that isn’t sufficiently noted. There are a variety of things driving American anxiety about illegal immigration and we all know them–economic arguments, the danger of porous borders in the age of terrorism, with anyone able to come in.
But there’s another thing. And it’s not fear about “them.” It’s anxiety about us.
It’s the broad public knowledge, or intuition, in America, that we are not assimilating our immigrants patriotically. And if you don’t do that, you’ll lose it all.
More.
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Just an example of why we need to get control of our borders. Here is an extremem solution that’ll never get passed … build a double row fence with mines in between. Bet that might slow ‘em down a bit.
Allow local law enforcement to arrest illegals for being in the country illegally! What a concept. However, the INS still doesn’t want to deal with them.
Make it a requirement to be a legal resident to get gov’t assistance like welfare.
Simple solutions.
the article is physcobabble, protect the boarders
The article is about love of country, respect for our founders, understanding our great national history and knowing something about the spirit of our people. That’s not “physcobabble” [sic], that’s patriotism. A candidate for U.S. House ought to know the difference.
” But there’s another thing. And it’s not fear about “them.” It’s anxiety about us.
It’s the broad public knowledge, or intuition, in America, that we are not assimilating our immigrants patriotically. And if you don’t do that, you’ll lose it all. ”
They are supposed to assimilate themselves to us.
America’s assimilation model has been defeated by massive immigration. Our traditional levels of immigration were much lower — and were controlled — before the 1965 changes in our immigration laws and other changes that followed, especially in policy, not law.