[CowboyJay]

"We need to crank up the assimilation machine that took in far more Italian, German and other immigrants back in the day when the US had no immigration quota whatever."

We have never seen rates of legal immigration that compare to the current rate of ILLEGAL immigration. By conservative estimates, the current rate is over 1 million per year.

[narby]

We have never seen rates of legal immigration that compare to the current rate of ILLEGAL immigration.

Not true. I don't have the time during this discussion to look up the facts, but around the turn of the century we took in a huge number of immigrants. Many millions, in a very short period.

I think the numbers were something like 1/3 of the entire population of the country was born elsewhere. That would be like having 60 million illegals here now, not 10 million.