Immigration issues aside, we need to get the Mexicans educated to the point the Irish became educated in the early 1900s. We aren't going to do that by patronizing the Mexicans.
We’re not just getting “average Mexicans.” We’re getting stunted, illiterate indio peasants. Hoping that they follow the model of the Irish is naive in the extreme.
A % will not do well because the public school system sucks. How many Latinos in Catholic Schools do well? A large percent is my bet. The Latino community—being made up of Peasant stock promotes hard physical work intellectualism and office work—not all of it but a large percent. It takes time to wash Mexico out of them and get them to embrace our values—it will happen in time. Face it—we need them in this land. Americans have too few children to replace the workers who are retiring. The Latinos are really helping us all out. I do not blame them for the stupid PC foolishness and Multicultural fad we embraced or for using it to get ahead—just as Blacks did with Affirmative Action.