The key question about illegal immigration

The key question about illegal immigration has finally been answered, said Michelle Malkin in The Washington Times. In the current debate over whether to grant this country’s illegal aliens amnesty, the focus has been on jobs, the economy, and national security. What’s missing is any serious discussion of whether these 11 million people, most of them Latinos, are assimilating into our population. Do the people who’ve crossed our borders truly want to be Americans—or do they simply want to set up a separate, Spanish-speaking nation in our midst? Let’s ask the hundreds of thousands of Latino separatists who staged angry protests last week in Los Angeles and other cities, waving Mexican flags. “Brown is beautiful,” they chanted, and “Chicano Power.” Some brandished signs saying, “This is a stolen land,” arguing that the American Southwest rightly belongs to Mexico. In portraying the demonstrators as aggrieved minorities, the liberal media, of course, tried to ignore these obvious displays of racism and “virulent anti-American hatred.” But how can the rest of us?