Looks like Max isn't the ONLY Socialist in America....

[The_Rorschach]

Check out "The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity and Civic Culture" by Lawrence H. Fuchs

You're right, every wave of immigrants has been percieved as a threat. . .But not an economic one until recently. Previously, they had been viewed as religiously and ideologically subversive elements which, by their very presence, would undermine the American republic. Eventually, however, and generally within a single generation, those immigrants would find themselves fully immersed in American culture, because ours is not a racial or ethnic bond, but an an economic and political one. Economically, those immigrants were desired. Even states like Massechusettes and Pennsylvania came to terms with the fact that they were not only viable, but necessary, in a capitalistic sense.

Maybe its because past immigrants were mostly German, English and Irish, or maybe its because Americans of those periods were made of better stuff. . .But in any case, the immigrants of today neither show any inclination, nor even willingness, to assimilate. Nor are they fiancially lucretive.

I'm not saying their presence is a great threat, economically or sociably, but that does not make them in any way desirable