I Want to Be Just Like You

Immigrants will eventually assimilate, this piece illustrates that fact. - - Donna Poisl

by Gary Hart, Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado

The immigration "debate", which routinely produces more heat than light, is contentious in part because it assumes foreign people entering the United States want to remain foreigners and not become Americans. Most recently the British prime minister decried "multiculturalism" because it was producing more or less permanent ghettos in the U.K.

American critics of Mexican immigrants often reflect the same opinion. And throughout our history as every wave of immigrants arrived here, there were always haters who sought to keep them in their place.
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