Again, the city I grew up in was replete with first and second-generation Americans.
The common thread was that the vast majority wanted to become Americans.
There were some malconents in the mix who went back to the "old country" when they couldn't assimilate.
By the way, despite your tippy-toeing around the issue, they were legal immigrants.
Subject to all the sensible rules and regulations in effect: sponsors, jobs, etc.
They were willing to make the effort to become Americans, because that was their ultimate goal.
This is not the case with illegals waving the Mexican flag and wanting to transplant the pathologies of their native country to America.
This is a whole different breed.
Right. And I think we should spend our efforts trying to convince modern immigrants to do the same. Yelling at them, calling them "illegal", is not a pursuasive argument to make them want to be like us. It is the exact opposite.
By the way, despite your tippy-toeing around the issue, they were legal immigrants.
Yes. Because we had virtually no limits on immigration in those years. We have stupidly, at the behest of communists like Cesar Chaves and his union, lowered the number of legal immigrants to unreasonably low numbers.
This is a whole different breed.
No. They're human just like anyone else.