The U.S. ‘assimilate or go home’ crowd could use a history lesson
“Assimilate or go home,” read the sign at Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s side as he held forth on the Senate floor last month about the proposed American System for Sustainable Immigration and Mass Immigration Limitations Achieved Through Imposing Oversight Nationally Act that he and Rep. Andy Ogles were about to introduce (yes, that works out to ASSIMILATION). Tuberville of Alabama and Ogles of Tennessee are both media personalities more than Republican legislators and there’s little chance of their bill becoming law, which would sharply reduce legal immigration and require would-be immigrants to be proficient in English before they arrive. But one thing Tuberville said at least merits........
