"But if they arrive with attitudes a world away from our own – accustomed to dependency on government, accustomed to having one’s job assigned by government, accustomed to disobeying the law because life is all about what you can get away with, so accustomed to poverty that miserable free welfare-state life is a welcome step up, so they’re satisfied with it and never work harder to improve their lot – then the work of assimilation will indeed be a challenging endeavor, taking years of effort and the support of our society. Accustomed or expecting dependency on government? There is a faction that gains power by paying for these immigrants with tax money and debt.
Later, the author cites the problems created by the many languages. I will add that we need to bring English as the official language of our government.
In his 1818 Report for the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote,
The objects of… primary education (which) determine its character and limits (are): To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business; to enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts in writing; to improve, by reading, his morals and faculties; to understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either; to know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains, to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment; and in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.
A properly educated citizen understands the first principles of the American republic, and will naturally love his country just as he naturally loves his family.
Without this love, republics are doomed to anarchy followed by authoritarian rule. While there is nary a word of this outside of conservative venues, the rats know exactly what they are doing.