I live in Houston. I see, hear and experience Mexico.
That's swell. Every major city in the US still has a Chinatown, and a Little Italy. Somehow, we avoided becoming adjuncts to either of
those countries, but that didn't stop the complaining of the racists
then, either.
The fact that you can go downtown and get a decent
taco isn't evidence that they're not assimilating. The studies are very clear that within two generations Mexican immigrant families are as American as Bluejays baseball and the enchilada supreme. They speak fluent English, they're moving in the same circles, they're inhabiting roughly the same economic strata. Almost
nobody assimilates faster than Mexican immigrant populations.
If you're worried about a non-assimilating population, look to the Muslims. I know that in Minnesota the Somalian immigrants are still practicing female genital mutilation amongst their daughters, and it's pretty clear in Europe that a lot of Muslims believe that, no matter where they immigrate, they have a right to force that culture to adopt Muslim traditions, no matter what that country had in mind for itself.
Don't tell me they assimilate in one generation, other than many of the women and children learning to get on the welfare rolls (50%)
Well, what do you expect? Their employers refuse to pay them a living wage, so they wind up on welfare.
Look, if you're pissed off about it, target the employers who are taking advantage of these people. Don't demonize good people who are simply trying to do right by their families. People have a right to do what it takes not to starve.
Nearly 30% of prison population are not US citizens.
Sounds like assimilation to me, in the country with the largest incarcerated porportion worldwide.
You are a classic liberal.
I'm actually a
classical liberal, in the sense that I believe that the freedom of the individual should be at a maximum, and that the purpose of the government is to restrait itself and corporations from infringing on that freedom wherever possible. The rise of American political Christian fascism and the spread of fanatical Islam are the two greatest threats to that freedom that I can percieve. No surprise that they're both driven by religion.