Al Capone and his associates were immigrants and/or children of immigrants. They joined gangs. It happens. It's not new.
I read the opinions of academics and I figure they are trying to persuade me to think a certain way. In this case, I figure they are trying to obfuscate any significant distinction between Legal and Illegal immigrants --
Illegal immigrants are by definition breaking the law? [shrug]
Legal immigrants join gangs and they break the law too!
So why get all wee-wee'd up about the border?
My opinion: We need to stop illegal immigration right now. I am also open to ending legal immigration. But that second idea is not a pressing concern. The first idea is very pressing.
What’s new is that the cops don’t administer wooden shampoos to the gangsters any more.
What’s new is that what used to be a few percent of the population is on track to be a full quarter of the population. So they ‘assimilate’ with each other - into the very third-world habits and behaviors that turned their home countries into unlivable hellholes - and not with the diminishing majority of actual Americans.