"A lot of people in LA also can't read or write Spanish either...even though they speak it."
As much as I hate illegal immigration, most Mexican immigrants I see around my house break their back working. 60 percent of the Muslims in Sweden don't work at all. And the Mexicans don't see themselves as having some holy mission to destroy America. They are Christian for the most part.
So I see Europe's situation as being much worse, though I don't deny for a second that ours is bad.
Watched an O'Reilly segment the other night where the presentero related studies/statistics showing that Mexicans of 2nd and 3rd gerneration are where the gangs start showing up. The first generation is basically ok, but their kids get into gangs, learn to hate America through the school system, refuse to assimilate - and we could be looking at some very bad consequences as well. So much for the "they have the same family values" sound bite we've been repeating.
Some of them, however, may have a mission to take back the American southwest for Mexico, so that that area can be as miserable and impoverished as the rest of their native country (you can only plunder so much).