Michelle Malkin on Assimilation

Now that amnesty is dead, Michelle Malkin asks, can we finally talk about assimilation?:

The fact is: We are not a 'nation of immigrants.' This is both a factual error and a warm-and-fuzzy non-sequitur. Eighty-five percent of the residents in the United States were born here. Sure, we are almost all descendants of immigrants. But we are not a 'nation of immigrants.'

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Even if we were a 'nation of immigrants,' it does not explain why we should be against sensible immigration control. And if the open-borders advocates would actually read American history instead of revising it, they would see the Founding Fathers were emphatically insistent on protecting the country against indiscriminate mass immigration. They insisted on assimilation as a pre-condition, not an afterthought.

With the demise of the the amnest bill, can we finally begin talking about border security and sensible immigration processes.

A good friend of mine has worked for the state department overseas in the visa section of the U.S. Consulate. While she worked in Germany, she saw and oversaw, the difficult process of coming to this nation legally. For people we want to come to this country, such as engineers, doctors and other skilled labor, the process is long and can be expensive, yet most sacrifice everything to come here.

While we arguably we need unskilled labor as well as skilled labor, we do need to think about the process. The process, when circumvented by some, makes the process for others more arduous and more unequal.

Oh, my friend's husband, a German national, even though married to an American, still paid to get his green card and the process was not easy at all. Makes you wonder.