My grandparents came here in the early 1920’s and were very proud and grateful to BE here. No one was asking them to give up their religion. (BTW, they were cast out of their own home land by Muslims who were doing just that and worse.)
There was no US taxpayer funded 'safety net' here so they had to sink or swim on their own...and did so. They didn't come here for freebies and never expected or asked for any. They had to be fit, healthy and able to support themselves because the US was not letting JUST ANYONE in!
When they arrived, they couldn't assimilate fast enough because they knew they would not succeed or benefit from the many opportunities, unless they did.
[[They’re all people who cannot/will not assimilate]]
TH3 BIBLE account of the statue in nebuchadnezzar’s dream had clay mixed with iron for the feet, which represented the base of society in the dream- the clay were foreigners who had Infiltrated his nation and refused to assimilate and who would be the u,timate reason why his nation fell
We are following right in his footsteps!
I think there's way more of the "will not" variety than the "cannot" variety.