And what happens if they don't want to be assimilated? Moreover, they vote Dem more than two to one. We are importing hundreds of thousands of future Dem voters every year. We don't need 1.1 million legal immigrants a year. Legal immigration needs to be reduced back to historic levels, i.e., 200,000 a year. We are being colonized by the Third World.
In addition to that, the ones here on work Visas or overstaying their legal stays here can be sent home.
You are mixing apples and oranges. We bring in 640,000 guest workers annually on work visas. They are legal just like the 900,000 here on student visas at any one time. Those who overstay their visas (40% of the illegal alien population) should be deported. It is the law. Of course our revolving door at the border allows many to reenter time and again. If you reenter, it is a felony, but nothing is really done.
Add to that, if they commit crimes, can't they have their immigrant status revoked?
Yes, that is also the law. We are just not enforcing it. Immigrants are also supposed to be self-supporting, but they get here and go on welfare within the first five years. Immigrants use the welfare system to a far greater degree than the native born. We are importing poverty.
I do believe there can be a degree of assimilation if the ones who are legal and give no reason to have that revoked have to learn English, have jobs, collect NO government handouts, and be preparing to qualify as citizens in a limited time frame....or go home.