[BluH2o]

This piece strikes me as alarmist. Immigrant groups have always retained their own language through the first generation or two.

You don't grasp the enormity where the flood of illegals is concerned ...it's estimated approximately one million illegals are infiltrating our southern border annually ... Ellis Island opened on January 1, 1892, and became the nation's first federal immigration station. In operation until 1954 (62 years), the station processed over 12 million (legal) immigrant steamship passengers.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

And what was the population of the country at the time? Proportionally, the amount of immigrants to natives is a little more today, but not by all that much.

However, immigrants today tend to be concentrated in a few countries; early waves were comparably about as large, but were divided among many nationalities: German, Swedish, French, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Filipino, Italian, Irish, etc.