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Posted by anupcs on March 31st 2006 in Politics, Society, USA
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As the debate about (illegal) immigration rails on, with Dubya at Chichen-Itza, numerous protest rallies, and what not, there is a lot of polarizing views being bandied about. One essay which stood out for me is by Victor Davis Harrison at RealClearPolitics. Quote:

So what fails and what works? Bilingual education in our schools, multicultural romance about a mythical Aztlan in our universities, guest worker programs that institutionalize helot status, salad-bowl separatism, and millions who cross the border illegally, all have contributed to the present disaster. But as we see with second- and third-generation model Mexican-American citizens, English immersion, acceptance of an American identity, integration, intermarriage and assimilation, legal and monitored immigration in the thousands from Mexico–all that guarantees immigrants success and energizes us the host.

Gets one thinking about the whole “when in Rome…” aphorism again.