Keep the immigrants. Deport the Columbia faculty.

I'm referring to a story by Jason L Riley on Wall Street Journal. Check out the article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121080967841993539.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Mr. Riley has explored into some serious stuff here. It rings true to the beliefs of most of America. And it points to the extremism that is being promoted by the hard core liberals who are against the concept of assimilation. This absolutely shows how they are out of touch with the reality.

Let me talk about assimilation, the supposedly dirty word. If I may, assimilation is the whole essence of being American. Right from the beginning, with each wave of immigration, the newcomers have tried their best to being a part of the mainstream. This may take a decade, or a couple of generations. But the whole idea is that the immigrants adjust their ways and become one to the melting pot that is America. The first generation may have their own difficulties, but the subsequent generations have always found it natural becoming American in all senses.

The key to this transformation is that there were always opportunities to do so in the past. Or at least, assimilation was always expected. Nobody talked about having Italian language education. There were no German sign boards in the public. Sure enough, the children of Catholic immigrants needed Notre Dame to come up against the odds that were stacked up in the universities then. But fast forward to the twenty first century and none of them is away from main stream America. Nobody bats an eye when a Catholic is running for president.

Again, this is not to say that assimilation is a one way street. No. It works both ways. As much as the immigrants become a part of America, they contribute to the culture, the cuisine and the folk lore: be it Pizza, Mafia or Drinking habits.

So, the pundits are wrong when they say assimilation is a bad thing. We do not need some parallel societies where a lower quality citizens exist segregated by the walls of education in a different language. There is no reason for English not becoming the official language of America. Earlier in history, there was no need for it. But now a days multiculturalists fail to realize that lack of assimilation linguistically and culturally is only enslaving the immigrants against an opportunity to self improvement : Financially and Culturally.

Good traditions never die. It never did in the past two centuries. So there is no reason to think that the sole identity of an immigrant is lost with assimilation. It only strengthens the person in a new environment. It only strengthens the country.

Democrats to entrust Coyotes with national security!

America is the only country where anybody can just walk in to the country and the local law enforcement authorities doesn't have any right to check anyone's legality to remain in the country. Go to any country in the world and one service that the governments do to the citizens is to make sure that it does not allow anyone to arrive without permission and cause harm to the citizens physically or economically.

For the record, Politics Avalanche is not against immigration. PA believes in creating provisions for temporary workers to be allowed into the country through special visas. There are around 13 million illegal immigrants in this country who are earning money and yet paying no taxes. The only way to end this free-ride is to get them ways to become legal and force employers to hire only legal workers by strong enforcement tactics.

Coming back to the main issue in question. Have anyone of you thought about how good is the border security in Mexico? Well, other than from certain neighboring countries, the border security measures in Mexico is pretty slack and anybody can get into Mexico pretty easily. So are we trusting Mexican authorities with our national security? They have other things to worry about.

Think about this: Once in Mexico, anyone can pay the coyotes to get themselves easily into the United States. Do you seriously think that the Coyotes are going to check the people against the US Terror Watch List before letting them cross the border? You must be kidding me! So in essence, we are trusting the coyotes with the National Security of the United States of America.

One argument I see against the strengthening of the borders is that no terrorist has come that way yet. OK, let us wait till a bunch of them arrive and blow up half of America before we can start doing something about it.