The Immigration Protests

The assimilation issue is stupid. Is it a process or a status? What kinds of factors are more important in guaging a successful migration? The word is so lucidly defined. You cannot possibly expect immigrants, legal or not, and guest workers to cosy up from day one. I wouldn't even expect it within twelve months.

And it's not as though it won't occur anyway. There is more to assimilation with a foreign society than not flouting its laws; looking at the process solely through a legal prism is glib and unfair. Besides, once they've saved enough from years of menial labour, they too can enter into the classically American consumption manias of 15MPG transport and 25% of their bodywight weekly in grease/fat/soft-drink.

Leave that stew on the stove even longer and they'll soon assume all the unofficial benefits of genuine citizenship too, like discrimination upon other minorities, tokenisation of white people, the right to keep to their own neighbourhoods, social clubs, dress codes, ethnolects and, of course, the sustenance and direction of all the new consumer markets they've created just by being Spics (I'm sure this one could only be construed as helping your nation's economy).

Jam it back in, in the dark.