Nation Of Immigrants?

This country was built by immigrants but that was a long time ago.
In the early days immigrants assimilated into the fledgling culture out of necessity. People who came here prior to the 20th century faced months of treachery at sea. They must have been the most daring and optimistic people of their time. The early immigrants had to leave everything behind knowing they may never return. Not so with today’s immigrants.
Before the 20th century, the new world immigrants sought did not boast of better schools. There were no food stamps; no access to free medical care. Back then, America was not strong. Before and during the war of 1812 America was under constant threat of attack. It wasn't until after the Spanish-American war (1898) that the U.S. introduced herself as a world power. After the turn of the century America needed more immigrants to settle the lands of the fruited plain. Immigrant labor built the infrastructure that later empowered the U.S. to liberate and rebuild Europe twice; (circa 1918) and again (circa 1945).
Historically, new immigrants be they Irish, German or Italian, had a difficult time gaining acceptance by the locals. They did demonstrate however, the desire to assimilate into the emerging culture. They shared attributes of their various cultures with the locals, who in turn shared knowledge from the collective culture of the prior assimilates. Many cultures did clash here. Eventually though, an alloy (if you will) resulted from the melding of so many cultures together - hence the super-culture theory.
Over the span of many decades the super-culture's pervasiveness knew no boundaries. Eventually, its influence grew so far and wide that it began defeating itself. People worldwide so readily accepted the universal values of liberty, consent of the governed and the like, that the idea of an American cultural identity became a myth. Our cultural identity is ill perceived simply because human beings naturally adopt it The super-culture, resulting from a great myriad of cultures, could be destroyed by a massive and sudden influx of one powerful and ethnocentric culture from the south. A massive and unregulated infusion of Mexican nationals is likely to through everything out of balance and F up the super-culture.

Today's immigrants face different challenges than the ones that built this country. Today's immigrants must compete with a well calculated illegal and overwhelming invasion of foreign nationals.
Today an estimated 11 million immigrants are here illegally. The vast majority of them (estimated 90% optimistic) are good people who contribute to the economy and send an estimated 26 billion dollars a year back home.
That leaves roughly 1.1 million people who are up to no good. a sovereign nation reserves the right to know what immigrants' intentions are. We need to know that they love America. We need to be assured that they can support themselves and their families without public funds. And Yes - Of course they will need to learn English. Likewise, people living in areas with large Spanish speaking communities would do well to learn Spanish. Mi gustaria aprendar hablo Espanol mejor. necesita una professora y practica y mas practica!

Mass immigration without mass assimilation is a recipe for disaster. A true immigrant (one who chooses to become an American) should want to adopt the language and customs of their new home. If even solely for their own benefit. After all it is all about them and what they need right?
>The Star Spangled Banner was written by a witness to a battle during the war of 1812. The song depicts the patriots' valiant struggle against the super tyrants of their age. The Spanish version of the song does not even try to capture the sentiment that inspired our anthem. The Spanish version of the Star Spangled Banner exhibits a different sentimentality altogether; one of entitlement and race baiting - it was a disgrace. A translation with more patriotism and less cynicism would not draw as much consternation from people who love this country.