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despite virtually unlimited immigration for most of that time.

That is inaccurate. We had pretty severe limitations from 1910 to 1967....and never anything comparable to the invasion of the past 10-15 years...not even early 1900s rival that.

And calling for unlimited immigration is nuts. Conservative estimates are that at least a half a billion would come here if they could get in. We already have what ..20% of Mexico since they have a logistical edge.

Just what we need. Where 1/2 or 2/3rds of the US is immigrant over night....in this minorities get to play victim and get special treatment idiocy culture we have created. (which is precisely what fuels this rollover policy, if these illegals were crackers, they'd get tossed listo)

I am unaware of any nation or culture in history that has withstood that.

We have had a 40% LEGAL increase in our nation's population (200 million to 288)in less than 2 generations directly due to increased immigration which is holy plenty and how well does it look like the Mexican and Salvadorans of that group are assimilating? Not great from here.

and that doesn't count the 12-25 million illegals.

Oh yeah....unlimited legal immigration is the answer...geez

Where 1/2 or 2/3rds of the US is immigrant over night....in this minorities get to play victim and get special treatment idiocy culture we have created.....I am unaware of any nation or culture in history that has withstood that....and that doesn't count the 12-25 million illegals.
Oh yeah....unlimited legal immigration is the answer.

Insanity!! geez out!

"There is no way we can deport 12 million people. It just can't be done."
Mexico did.
-- Ted Nugent

Saying "we can't deport, we can't enforce" is a cop-out. Saying "we couldn't" and "we shouldn't" have immigration laws which are in the best interests of American and AMERICANS is the surest way to end the United States of America.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

never anything comparable to the invasion of the past 10-15 years...not even early 1900s rival that.

Research is your friend. Absolute numbers are irrelevant. When a hundred or so immigrants on the Mayflower hit the beach, they set the culture of the continent. The percentage of "other-culture" population matters, as does the determination that our culture will prevail. All I see in the "no amnesty" mantra folks is a xenophobic close the door attitude. That has proven a total failure for 50 years now, and "trying harder" like the libs do with socialism, won't make a failed policy good.

The percentage of immigrant population is what's relevant when talking about which culture will be dominant. The linked PDF above will tell you that the number of immigrants as a percentage of the population still isn't nearly what it was from 1850 through 1920.

We assimilated those foreign born, foreign language folks just fine because we had an affirmative policy to do it. But xenophobia since 1960 has failed.

Guess which policy I favor.