Posted on 04/23/2013 9:36:24 AM PDT by Cronos
THE alleged involvement of two ethnic Chechen brothers in the deadly attack at the Boston Marathon last week should prompt Americans to reflect on whether we do an adequate job assimilating immigrants who arrive in the United States as children or teenagers.
..When asked “what do you like most about being here?” an 11-year-old Haitian boy in Cambridge told us, “There is less killing here.” His response was notably succinct, but not unique.
..Having just one friend who spoke English fluently was a strong predictor of positive academic outcomes. Yet more than a third of the students in our study reported that they had little or no opportunity even to interact with native-born students, much less make close friends.
Our research also confirmed that kids who arrive during their high school years, as Tamerlan Tsarnaev did, face bad odds, especially if they experienced interrupted schooling, family instability and traumatic dislocations back home.
..Whatever motivated the Tsarnaev brothers surely is not the fault of the schools and may never be known. Among some of the distinctive features of their case are family estrangement, multiple relocations across countries and, possibly, religious radicalization.
Taking in what Emma Lazarus called the “wretched refuse,” including asylum seekers like the Tsarnaev brothers, without providing a scaffold of support undermines the promise of America.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So who keeps electing America’s “Diversity Uber Alles Ruling Class” which deliberately continues to allow serious security problems to fester - martians?
“Whatever motivated the Tsarnaev brothers”
Just like Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the propagandists at MSNBC, these Liberals can’t quite bring themselves to say it was Islam that motivated the terrorists. Must just keep pretending that we could never possibly figure out their motivation.
“It is not the responsibility of America (or Americans) to assimilate me.....You promise to remain what made you great: dispassionate, disinterested, and cherishing the freedom to be left alone above all else.
I did not lose my way to socially engineered Cuba, I came looking for the promise of the US. Please don’t change it.”
How I wish this guy could get hold of Marco Rubio and explain to him what an immigrant is!
As if we have a choice.
Saudi Arabia
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