Let's take this pari passu, shall we?
1. In 150 Years of Irish Immigration to the United States, some 4 Million Irishmen came (more or less legally) to the United States.
2. Most of them spoke English, were members of a Christian sect (although a somewhat unpopular group), were familiar (all too) with Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, and mores.
3. More Mexicans have entered the US illegally in the last 5 years than all the legal Irish, Poles, and Eastern European Jewish immigrants combined. And as Pat Buchanan, that horrible racist, has pointed out, "there are many Mexicos."
When the US assimilated 5 Million Legal Italian Immigrants over a 50 year period, the ballot was not printed in their language ... indeed one could not vote without passing a rudimentary English test. Today, in LA alone, there are 5 Million people who do not speak English, and whose children (American Citizens) go to school in Spanish.
The point is, Buchanan Bashers, the numbers of Third World immigrants are of an entirely different magnitude ... say 20-1 ... over what the country assimilated with European immigration.
Most American families today have relatives by blood and marriage who have Irish, German, English, Polish, Italian, Russian, and even Jewish antecedents. How is this level of assimilation supposed to occur if the population base suddenly becomes 60% hispanic?
Buchanan is not saying this is a bad thing. Or a good thing. It is merely a true thing.
Yeah, right - that's why he titled his book "Death of the West."
"If present trends continue, by the end of the century Germany will be a nation with only 40-50 million inhabitants, and we know that on our borders other peoples are growing quickly and strongly. Sooner or later, these other peoples will come in conflict with a shrinking and dying German people, and the result of the supposed doctrine of happiness will be a hard and bitter national death for our children."
-- is it Pat, or is it (no)MEMOR(y)EX???