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Entry: Are New Immigrants Assimilating? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/are_new_immigrants_assimilating#26359 Post contents: It's unsurprising that the Washington Post would skew this report to reflect benignly on our current border policy, which keeps immigrant inflow - virtually all of it illegal - at open-floodgate level. Long ago, interests controlling the American information industry opted to help fill this country with cheap labor as a means of controlling inflation, obviating unionization and sustaining the egregious enrichment of the already-rich. Americans have chafed in silence as this undeclared open-borders policy replaced them with laborers willing to toil long hours at microscopic wages, under conditions approaching the mayhem of 19th-century industrial workhouses. At the same time, they've seen rollbacks of trade policy and workplace preferment defended as "progressive," and their own growing alienation dismissed as backward... even racist. There is a common concurrence in American politics and media that anyone favoring measured, limited immigration be tarred as "anti-immigrant." In this context, there's apparently no allowance for any condition "illegal." Sent at: 2008 10 07