I am the Borg! You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile
Reminds me of the line from "Blazing Saddles":
"We'll give some land to the N@ggers and the Chinks, but not the Irish!"
Business in Spanish, press #2? Si.
Little Mexico communities? Si.
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“Ted Kennedy’s Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia.”
The 1965 Act was an abomination, but let’s be honest- not many Europeans would be coming here even if we had more liberal immigration policies. Their birth rates are way down, and too many of them are enamored of their own welfare states in Europe to come to the US and a more competitive economy.
Just look at Ireland- at one time they were having babies left and right, had a poor economy, and America was the safety valve. Same with Germany. If we favored Europeans more in immigration, some Irish and Germans would come here, but nothing remotely comarable to the old days.
And I’m not sure how much we want Russian or eastern European immigrants- the Russian immigrants we have tend to be disproportionately involved in fraud and crime. They are used to the easy buck and corruption of the East Bloc and bring that with them.
So yes, we’ve done a horrible job passing laws, but it’s also true that the pool of desirable immigrants has gone down.
In 1965, Ted Kennedy said that the immigration bill passed that year would NOT result in major changes to the ethnic composition of our population. Clearly he was wrong.
Why isn’t Ted Kennedy held to account for his major error with his 1965 legislation on immigration? He was so far off in his calculations of what would happen then. Why should we believe what he says now on this subject? His ‘65 bill unleashed a huge wave of immigration from the 3rd world that continues today. Why isn’t he blamed in part for the situation we face today?
Is he blameless just because he’s a good Democrat?
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I found the article disgusting and it made me sick to my stomach... because it’s all so very true.
Why should they assimilate? They are constantly pandered to in their own language.
It is incredible that after Kennedy’s disastrous immigration bill of 1965 and his lousy in-put into the failed Simpson-Mazoli bill of 1986, the US Senate should allow this two-time loser come up with yet a third losing proposition...and that McCain would actually attach his name to this monstrosity! That misjudgment alone disqualifies him from the presidency. With his rancid history, Kennedy should not be let anywhere near an immigration bill.
Liberalism has taught people to despise American culture.
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Liberals become advocates for immigrants because they can secure additional federal and non-profit aid in which to create their own little power fiefdoms. Liberals use immigrants for moral leverage, that is, anyone questioning their motives are racists, and because their motives are “pure” they are entitled to drive most any agenda.
Finally, liberal use immigrants as the new wave of entitlement slaves. “Vote for us and we’ll keep the federal cash coming your way.”
Does it really need to be said how evil Ted Kennedy is?
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as having done his level best to ruin this country. And most disgusting of all is that forty-two years later his fat arse is still occuppying that senate seat....
Where are the nonassimilating immigrants, and how long have they been here?
I’ve lived in a lot of places. Whenever I have met Mexican immigrants, legal and illegal, they were nice as can be. Happy people. And they either spoke English, or they were trying to learn. (I can only assume that some of the waiters/waitresses we have had in Mexican restaurants were illegal, but I’m not positive.) We have lived in two states in the Southwest. I can’t recall knowing any nonEnglish speakers in New Mexico. I have met nonEnglish speakers in Arizona, but they are all older people who have a little difficulty. I have known a lot of middle-aged to babies in southern Arizona, and English is their language most spoken. It is such that most of the children do not know Spanish well enough to feel comfortable speaking it.
As far as culture goes, there are a whole lot of Mexican descendants who leave LA and other areas because they want a better life for their children. And they speak English. But they have Spanish last names and brown skin. They must not want to assimilate.
I will tell you exactly why they won’t assimilate: thanks to 40 years of liberal policy, they can’t. All immigrants, but Hispanics in particular because they are the largest group and the Dems want to keep them as a captive voter bloc, are shunted off into bilingual classes, classes and events dealing solely with their home country culture, and the foreign language press, since they no longer even need English to vote or get a drivers license anymore.
This was not done by Hispanics: it was done by your friends and mine, the federal government’s “equal opportunity” language and educational policies, the liberal universities, the liberal state and local governments, and the Dem party ward heelers.
Never in the past was any group under more pressure NOT to assimilate.