Let me add: an aggressive program of anglification and assimilation must go hand in hand with the amnesty to prevent a lot of the cultural problems you describe here. Let ‘em know that if they want to stay they need to learn English, first of all, followed by make sure their kids go to school.
We’ll have generations of problem, yes. But those problems will go away.
Do you know the term “paddy wagon”? It’s an anti-Irish slur. The Irish that came to the US after the potato famine in relatively huge numbers were ignorant, unlettered, and (thanks to systematic undernourishment) of less than average intelligence. The “Shanty Irish” were viewed as “the other black race”. Heavy drinkers, adherents of Romanism, drunken rioters, violent, sexually uncontrolled peasants from the back woods of Connaught.
But time passed. They had kids. And they had kids. Eventually one became President. Today anti-Irish bigotry is unheard of. It took a century and a half, but the Irish (who were thought impossible to assimilate) were assimilated.
But one way to keep them in their shanties would have been to declare “open season” on them and make them eternally afraid of the rest of the country. We didn’t do that to them; they assimilated. We shouldn’t do that to the Hispanics. (And the vast majority of Hispanics are here *legally*.)
It will take a century or so to assimilate these people. But we can, and should, assimilate them.
I never said that amnesty was gonna be easy. But it beats, er, hunting the two legged with bounties.
Bigot.