[luvbach1]

This is the essential difference between many of today's immigrants and those of yesteryear. Early immigrants (including my father and mother) came to become Americans, embracing all that signifies. It would have been unthinkable for them to root against our national team, although as a wise poster pointed out, we can withstand a defeat in soccer. How many immigrants of questionable loyalty we can absorb is a more troubling question.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

"This is the essential difference between many of today's immigrants and those of yesteryear. Early immigrants (including my father and mother) came to become Americans, embracing all that signifies. It would have been unthinkable for them to root against our national team, although as a wise poster pointed out, we can withstand a defeat in soccer. How many immigrants of questionable loyalty we can absorb is a more troubling question."

You must not be familiar with the ethnic ghettos and ordinances within many large American cities that have been in existence for a little over 100 years now. Of course many immigrants came to be Americans, but it took until the 3rd and 4th generations for them to fully assimilate into American culture. I am not worried about the legal Mexican immigrants that come here, we should of course require them to take English courses, but one quick look at history will tell us that assimilation takes around two generations, not 2 years.