Comments on: But Will They Assimilate? (Alberto Gonzalez Edition)

By: Aldo

Aldo — Sun, 21 May 2024 02:38:42 +0000

When is someone going to call out the Heritage Foundation on their hypocritcal immigrant scaremongering? At the same time they are saying the US as we know it is going to end with incerased immigration (both legal and illegal) they are expanding their own staff through immigrant hires:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm

By: Dr. Steven Taylor

Dr. Steven Taylor — Thu, 18 May 2024 01:00:19 +0000

You are probably thinking about Miguel Estrada, who was bornin Honduras and was appointed by Bush to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, and eventually withdrew his name after a Democratic filibuster kept his name from the floor.

By: Carla L Vasser

Carla L Vasser — Wed, 17 May 2024 23:51:30 +0000

When I first read anything about Gonzales’ ethnicity, he was from El Salvador. What happened to that ( or am I remembering wrong).

By: Honza Prchal

Honza Prchal — Wed, 17 May 2024 19:09:54 +0000

Thomas Sowell did some great work on this back when he was at the Urban institute. he compared Mexicans to the Southern Italians of yesteryear.

By: Dr. Steven Taylor

Dr. Steven Taylor — Wed, 17 May 2024 18:45:38 +0000

I will confess to being a tad sketchy on the pre-1965 rules.

However, I don’t think that there were no rules whatsoever–as if that was the case, why have the Bracero program (a guest-worker program that originated in WWII and ended in the early 1960s)?

More to the point, however, is that my point was about assimilation, and not really about legality/illegality.

The current illegals come to work, and are likely uneducated. However, the test of assimilation is with the children and grandchildren.

Gonzalez is certainly a grand example of assimilation.

By: LaurenceB

LaurenceB — Wed, 17 May 2024 18:35:51 +0000

As I understand it (please correct me if I’m mistaken), until 1965 there was no limit placed on the number of immigrant visas that could be approved from Mexico. So the issue of whether or not Gonzalez’ grandparents were legal or not is probably not particularly relevant. If they were not, it only means that they didn’t bother to get paperwork that they could have easily gotten.