Linda Chavez: Survey defies illegal immigrant stereotypes
Dallas Morning News April 20, 2009
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Lynn Woolley: Too many 'illegals' not interested in assimilating

04:50 PM CDT on Monday, April 20, 2009

If, as Linda Chavez seems to think, the intent of those who come to America illegally is simply to raise a family, send the kids to college and assimilate into American society, then where's the problem? The problem is – that's just simply not the case.

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The situation in 2009 is very different from the days when people emigrated from all over the world and came here to be part of the American Dream. The difference is that no one then really wanted to re-establish the old country; they wanted a better life – not the same life in a different place.

For the record, there are thousands of immigrants – illegal and otherwise – who feel that way. But there are additional thousands who don't. One of them is Charles Truxillo, a professor at the University of New Mexico, who says the "Hispanic Homeland" should be brought into existence by any means necessary. Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez at the University of Texas at Arlington has said much the same thing.

Ms. Chavez might also explore the days of yore that she compares to today, just to see if government and business kowtowed to people who had no desire to assimilate. Schools, for example, have been pretty much ruined by programs like bilingual education and curricula based on "diversity." In my day, we learned reading and writing and, though we had Hispanic kids in school, they learned in English too. The department stores of my youth had no Spanish signage. Now, we have Wal-Mart opening up "Supermercado de Wal-Mart" stores in Arizona and Texas.

So government and business enable this rapid culture and demographic shift – and the Democratic Party eats it up. Most illegals who sneak into the country and take advantage of our system will sign up to vote as Democrats. The naive Republicans who want cheap labor don't even understand they're being had. The cheap labor will come, but if they can manage to send their kids to school and then college – an admirable goal – then the cheap labor goes away. So we have to keep the flow of illegals coming across.

If you want to see the problems associated with this rapid demographic shift in which English and the old melting pot culture have been thrown aide, look no further than the Dallas Independent School District. A little less diversity, English immersion, and the 3 R's would work wonders if they ever tried it.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based radio talk show host heard on KVCE AM 1160 weekdays at 9 a.m. His e-mail address is lynn@belogical.com.

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