Thread: MULTICULTURALISM, IMMIGRATION AND AZTLAN*

http://www.diversityalliance.org/docs/Chang-aztlan.html

A little long but good article I just came across.

By Maria Hsia Chang
Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
One of the standard arguments invoked by those in favor of massive immigration into the United States is that our country is founded on immigrants who have always been successfully assimilated into America's mainstream culture and society. As one commentator put it, "Assimilation evokes the misty past of Ellis Island, through which millions entered, eventually seeing their descendants become as American as George Washington."1

Nothing more vividly testifies against that romantic faith in America's ability to continuously assimilate new members than the events of October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles. On that day, 70,000 people marched beneath "a sea of Mexican flags" protesting Proposition 187, a referendum measure that would deny many state benefits to illegal immigrants and their children. Two weeks later, more protestors marched down the street, this time carrying an American flag upside down.2 Both protests point to a disturbing and rising phenomenon of Chicano separatism in the United States â€â€

Maybe I misread this but somehow the entrance of socialism into America circa 1945 is missing. This is a key ingredient to the immigration mess that we have before us now, and one of the major tools that the reconquistas are founded upon.

All it takes is the reform of our immigration laws and actually ENFORCING them and there wouldn't be a problem at all. I don't care if they're Hispanic, as long as they want to assimilate.