U.S. must advance assimilation of legal immigrants

“But there is still a solution to the immigration problem: It involves supporting any practice that leads to the assimilation of legal Mexican immigrants into the American mainstream — and opposing everything that does not.

Employers and La Raza activists who thrive on the current non-system might not like that approach, but it is the only way to avoid the gathering political and cultural storm.

As we’ve seen from second- and third-generation legal immigrants, when a person from Mexico comes to the United States with legal documentation, learns English and regards an unskilled job as the start, not the end, of a career, success most often follows.”

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