But he thinks that Mexicans, or Mexican-Americans if you will, if provided with amnesty will quite possibly be
"at least as successful (in his words) in `assimilating' as our former slaves", African Americans.
Why, there's a success story waiting to happen here and we're just holding them back . . .
Not "quite possibly" - there's NO POSSIBLE WAY it could be worse than how far blacks were able to come - if nothing else because they get the advantage of the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act already being passed.