And of course you know since you were there on the street corner in the lower east side documenting everything in 1905.
Dude my parent was a first generation immigrant and my parent told me that they were called derogatory names and were disliked. They ignored your ilk. They had their own papers in their language and they were derided becuase they read them.
Also, when watching Spanish television I see 1/2 hour infomercials pushing courses to learn English.
Get back to me when there is an infomerical selling Spanish instruction.
Of course, if someone is liable to be yanked off their job at any moment and shipped back to wherever they came, there's not a lot of incentive to assimilate, is there? You can't have it both ways: You can't gripe about the lack of assimilation by illegal immigrants and call for the immediate deportation of tens of millions of people.