Head of U.S. Office of Citizenship concerned about assimilat

Head of U.S. Office of Citizenship concerned about assimilation
By Eunice Moscoso | Friday, February 8, 2008, 03:24 PM

Alfonso Aguilar, head of the U.S. Office of Citizenship, said this week he is concerned about social and political cohesion in the future as the country becomes more diverse and does not have one dominant racial or ethnic category.

“We need to strengthen assimilation efforts, we need to look at citizenship from that perspective, because if not, I believe that 20 or 30 years down the road we may have serious challenges,â€

“We need to strengthen assimilation efforts, we need to look at citizenship from that perspective, because if not, I believe that 20 or 30 years down the road we may have serious challenges,â€

So the head of the citizenship bureau thinks that immigrants are not assimilating fast enough?I wonder what ever gave him that idea? :evil:

Gee, it took him 20 years to realize that? Assimilation....YA ES HORA. First, how about NO MORE visas for countries with the largest population of illegal aliens....MEXICO, HONDURAS, GUATEMALA, EL SALVADOR, NICARAGUA, etc.

Second, no more chain migration. Institute merit-based criteria only....education, work experience and English language skills. Nothing else.

Thirdly, reduce legal immigration as a time-out by 3/4. No visas to people from terrorist sponsoring nations at all until further notice, no acceptance of
"refugees" from there either...let some them apply to Canada, Mexico or anywhere else.

[quote]We need to strengthen assimilation efforts, we need to look at citizenship from that perspective, because if not, I believe that 20 or 30 years down the road we may have serious challenges,â€

[quote]“We need to strengthen assimilation efforts, we need to look at citizenship from that perspective, because if not, I believe that 20 or 30 years down the road we may have serious challenges,â€

There is more here than meets the eye....not sure yet what it is but something does not smell right about this....

Why would anyone want too copy anything Great Britain is doing .....Helllooo they are headed for the cliff faster than we are or down the tolit how ever you want to look at it :roll:

Of couse it is a government agency so what can you expect!! :evil:

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Why would anyone want too copy anything Great Britain is doing .....Helllooo they are headed for the cliff faster than we are or down the tolit how ever you want to look at it

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Exactly. I hear that everyday. I know when I lived in Nebraska the churches took it on themselves to "adopt a family" and be someone any new immigrants could turn to for help. The churches offered free English classes and they also helped have activities so they could meet other immigrants from their home countries and mesh then with the people of the community. They took it on themselves. Why does everything have to done by the government? The article where they talked about this was immigrants or refugees from Somalia. They had never seen a stove or any of the appliances we have. They had cooking classes and all sorts of things to help them. Helped them set-up an account in the bank....literally everything. People donated furniture and such to get them started. They didn't have to look for work or find an apartment...that was part of what they (the government I guess) did to set it up for them. They didn't get to pick where they wanted to go....they were sent where they were needed for work. So maybe the company that hired them did it. I think they had everything covered for 3 months to get used to everything and then another 9 months with food stamps and medicade to give them a chance to put money away etc. learn about budgeting and all that and then they were on their own.

My parents, naturalized immigrants themselves from Latin America....were more than happy to sponsor and help a few families of Vietnamese (The Boat People) who were brought in by the local YWCA. They were the nicest, most greatful people ever... my father hired all the males. The children enrolled in schools and became English proficient in a very short time, due to instruction by immersion. Plus many of the Vietnamese were already bilingual in French and their native tongue. They were so happy to see their children succeed in school and they sure did academically very, very well. As a child, I was so happy to bring some the girls into my Brownie Troop and they blended in right away and had so much fun. It was cute to see them so proud to march in our fourth of july parade!

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My parents, naturalized immigrants themselves from Latin America....were more than happy to sponsor and help a few families of Vietnamese (The Boat People) who were brought in by the local YWCA. They were the nicest, most greatful people ever... my father hired all the males. The children enrolled in schools and became English proficient in a very short time, due to instruction by immersion. Plus many of the Vietnamese were already bilingual in French and their native tongue. They were so happy to see their children succeed in school and they sure did academically very, very well. As a child, I was so happy to bring some the girls into my Brownie Troop and they blended in right away and had so much fun. It was cute to see them so proud to march in our fourth of july parade

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That is a beautiful story. That is what I have been used to seeing with past immigrants who came here....it really touches you to see them so proud and thankful to be here. Had a friend who was so proud to write her first tax check to the government.
LOL....Can't say I'm that thrilled but she said it was so good to be contributing citizen and giving something back to this country. She felt like when they were repairing the roads...that yes...this time she could say that road I helped pay for. She felt like a contributing part of this country. Wish we had 10000 more just like her. :D

[quote]In Germany, immigrants must pass a 600-hour language course and another 30 hours on the country’s legal system, culture and history.

The “integration coursesâ€

Local churches and organizations have always helped new foreign families adapt. Usually they sponsor them.

There is nothing wrong with that, and better, since its community involvement and not something fostered by the government.

I also have a problem with how because of the many we have here, we seem to have lost space for people who really do need to come to this country. For example, what about some of the poor Congo women? They are being raped by record numbers. We can't get some of them to safety here?

We always made is easy for people seeking political aslyum for various reasons, death threats, jail, politica persecution, etc.

Since we started on the amnesy road, we have lost track of some of that humanitarian use of entry. At least it seems so.

We have to rethink this whole immigration issue. We can't keep letting one group of people or countries abuse our generosity with citizenship.
It means less room for people who really need entry or others who would be exceptional citizens but can't get in due to backlogs, etc.. The way this government throws money around, funding should be provided for the important things without a lot of wasted time with their studies, etc, that anyone with common sense could tell them no study needed, its worth while.

We have to get these politicians to realize that they keep putting their greedy little hands in Grandma's cookie jar for asinine stuff. We only want real and needed items funded. They think they can do whatever they want as if they have unlimited funds at their disposal. They do not and should be responsible with the taxpayers monies. We are the treasury, we foot the bills, if we don't pay the taxes no monies available. Corporations aren't the big suppliers of this, WE ARE. We should demand fiscal responsibility from our government, not the reckless spending frenzy they like.

I think we need a complete overhaul with who is in government and some new laws regarding budgeting of funds. We must get out of the debt we are in. Until we do so we are at the mercy of global interests, who do not always have our welfare in their greedy little minds.

He should be. But the problem is not going to be in 20 years, it's happening right now!

Of course assimilation is a huge concern. That's why our country has caps set in place on the number of legal immigrants that can be allowed into this country from any particular country over the course of one year.

These caps are in place so as to ensure that assimilation takes place and that no one group is predominatly represented in the immigration process

That all goes out the window when you have 20-30 million illegal invaders living in the US that could potentially receive some sort of amnesty, not to mention all their relatives via chain migration. The number could be close to 100 million uneducated, poor, Mexican Immigrants over the next 5-10 years.