[Chi-Town Lady]

"Of course the US will change with a larger influx of Mexican immigrants, but melting pot has always changed and remade itself when it absorbed large influxes of immigrants, in over 200 years that process has made us nothing but better."

But you have to remember that in the past those large influxes of immigrants WANTED TO BE AMERICANS. They assimilated. The Mexicans don't want to do that.

[chris1]

Exactly. They are just fine living on the fringes of society and going on the programs that taxpayers fund. Shame on you apologists for this. Let day laborers start hanging out in front of YOUR house and see how you like it.

[pcx99]

But you have to remember that in the past those large influxes of immigrants WANTED TO BE AMERICANS. They assimilated. The Mexicans don't want to do that.

This charge has been leveled against every immigrant wave since the mayflower. It was untrue of the irish, it was untrue of the poles, untrue of the italians, the germans, the jews, the vietnamese, the chineese, the japaneese, and it's untrue of the Mexicans.