Is the problem then with the immigrants or with the lack of pressure to assimilate? Every prior immigration wave produced cultural enclaves that persisted for decades. Of course new immigrants will seek out familiarity in a strange land. The solution is not to ban them but to welcome them on our terms, such that they grow into Americans. Simply, either we believe we are endowed universally with inalienable rights, or we don’t.
Their human rights have nothing to do with us having an obligation to allow them in. We could have zero immigrants for 100 years, it would say nothing about anybody else’s rights.
The results are in:
Interethnic assimilation happens and takes two to three generations. Example: Irish Americans.
Interracial assimilation doesn't happen, ever, not even slightly, even after centuries.
Is the problem then with the immigrants or with the lack of pressure to assimilate? Every prior immigration wave produced cultural enclaves that persisted for decades. Of course new immigrants will seek out familiarity in a strange land. The solution is not to ban them but to welcome them on our terms, such that they grow into Americans. Simply, either we believe we are endowed universally with inalienable rights, or we don’t.
Their human rights have nothing to do with us having an obligation to allow them in. We could have zero immigrants for 100 years, it would say nothing about anybody else’s rights.
So what would be acceptable markers of assimilation?