Most of our "huddled masses" have come from poor and/or politically unstable countries, whether it be Europe in the past or Latin America in the present. People who live in stable wealthy countries do not emigrate en masse.
I do not want South America as my backyard either, but the hispanics of today are not intrinsically worse than the Europeans of yesterday. Both sets of people came from politically backwards and economically tenuous lands.
"I do not want South America as my backyard either, but . . . ."
But that's what we're getting. We're overwhelmingly importing the bottom rung of the third world rather than the best and brightest of the first world. (These are the ones our amigo Vicente Fox is all too willing to see emigrate north.) We can't continue to bring in tens of millions of the world's citizens who have poor education, low job skills, and very likely a very modest intellectual level without very soon paying the price.
They are catered to, many have entitlement attitudes, which is fostered by liberals, they aren't EXPECTED to learn English, not with the all the "bilingual" programs that the NEA and other liberal establishments/unions are FORCING onto private businesses, schols and state agencies. Also, the word "racist" is screamed at Americans who don't want these people being catered to, Americans who don't want the hispanics to be given special/preferred status/treatment than is given to other new LEGAL immigrants.
Immigrants from Europe didn't EXPECT handouts as a matter of right...didn't EXPECT food stamps....didn't EXPECT FREE anything....they followed the laws for immigration, and worked for their food, legally, paid their taxes, and spent their hard-earned money in the communities where they lived, not sending out of the country, en masse, which is not putting back into their local communities which bear the burden of educating their youngsters, policing their neighborhoods, etc.