Show 4 A ' ' - ' ' : - : :The ' ' T': ?y Herald Journal " ' -- Commentary New i ' - - : r -i ' J " ' j iv U US assimilation plan for Mexicans needed of coursewants to be a perpetual S amuei Huntington is a distin- - guished scholar who always address- important and timely issues In his article on Mexican immigration to the United Stales published in the current issue of Foreign Policy mag- azine Mr Huntington reveals serious about his country especial- sees it divided into two that he ty cultures and two languages This ' apprehension can’t be dismissed Huntington loves his country something I understand because I love mine too and would not like to see it divided in such a way Huntington points to a series of distinctive traits that he says have characterized Mexican immigration and have made it different from previous migrations to the USi They include the fact that the immigrants are coming from a contiguous terri- tory the scale of the migratory flow its illegal nature its persistence or continuity over time and finally its : —by which he means the fact that a majority of immigrants are concentrated in what were once Mexican territories later annexed by the US Huntington claims Mexican immigrants still feel they have a legitimate claim to these areas Although one cart argue with many of his details and statistics these are all real issues And they lead in his view to one fundamental trend: Mexican immigrants are not assimilating info the American melting pot the way other ethnic groups have in the past If this is even partly true then Huntington’s concern for the future in warranted The heart of his argument is this: Because they are failing to assimilate — arenot being successfully absorbed into American Society as previous immigrant groups haye been —Mexicans in the US could be condemned to live there indefinitely as a separate permanent d-class subgroup Arid no group -- unassimilated minority not in the US and not anywhere else But despite Huntington’s pes- simisra the reality is that such an outcome is not inevitable for Mexi-e- s cans in the US US history includes several examples — such as the Irish — in' which broad assimilation occurred without immigrants' losing their ditions or1 links to their native coun try Why can’t it be the same for Mexicans? It is true that many previous immigrant groups didn’t face a lan guage barrier and that they probably didn’t face racism as acute as Mexi- today face But that does not mean it cannot happen The most relevant criticism of " Huntington’s argument is that it describes a situation he characterizes as undesirable while making no effort to offer a solution That in y - - controversial and why he’s faced charges of racism — unfairly in my opinion Huntington is a conserva-histor- y tive but he is not aracisL Mexican immigration does have distinctive traits that make difficult: if not impossible the automatic assimilation that characterized previ- ous waves of migrants This is not a question of lack of will it is a matter in Ahe British historian Denis Brogan once wrote with admiration about how a truly marvelous political in the United Stales some-of history-process That is why the US must make a together prapte who s flir apart: geognqphiT effort a construct new to so were type major really of assimilation that is both voluntary cally ethnically racially religiously and effective The legalization of and in their fedings about the direc Mexican workers and their families tion their leaders should take their a constant and energetic battle to country He wrote fight discrimination against MexK cans and a concerted effort to ease that the long the road to citizenship are sane of campaign for the essential features of such an r president filled with v effort I Mexico has helped with this cheering and boisterousness process in the recent past by gl dual President at the political ing nationality Vicente Fox has also pushed fc conventions and then folagreement with die UJ5 that lowed by accusations apd debate See ASSIMILATE on A7 between the party nominees some-y- " " how became the glue that brought the country together He concluded that this process provided a way in which the voters could “let off steam” before they went to the polls chose a president and then buried their differences while behind their chosen leader Better foanusinggunsMtosettfethtirdiffer- races he observed Mr Brogan writing a the terrorists’ timing By The Christian Science Monitor place of attack or method And the citation of ago had it right: That’s the odd but 7Q ongoing FBI antiterrorism investi-- ! adnurable way our presidential allecession comes about when our f he release of the classified gations probably reassured Mr Bush new president takes office in the But was there something different Aug 6 2001 presidential briefing wake of this unifying process But should have about this that memo on terrorism was an unusual but follow-up? in the prompted presidential spike necessary step Given Previous briefings probably focused terrorist “chatter? that summer and tlw kale of attack that followed the mainly on terrorists in other coun- tries This one seemed aimed to shift public has a right to know what was Here is a attention to a threat in the US its commanto being communicated Its title “Bin Laden Determined to phone numbers fair some of Cache But in judging George Bush’shan--r Strike m US“ should have prompt- - VMey's representatives in govenviJ ' merit questions from the presi- idling of terrorism the public needs': ed further dent So should have this bit: i to know flow he responded to the r v’ resided members in the “haye memo knownu preridential ' ' Doufl Thompson 1567 Lynnwood or traveled to the US for years’ and daily briefing By pointedly refusing 9 “the group apparently maintains v i Ay- V' totell reporters thishalf of the story aid that cdifid nation structure a the does Houre support foe White L v COUNCIL ” ' disservice' Laraine E 50 1150 Swanson When a new prerident takei office :The memo is short a mere pagtand ' 3 $pufoi Logan 84321 he is naturally focused on his a half Its information buttresses both Steve West 37 S200 Thompson da To his credit Bush was curious j 7 critics and defenders of foe Bush team Lbgan 84321 7536019 and is unlikely to alvance the ball' enough about tororism to ask the Taml Pyfer South PI much further in determining foe ' questions that prompted this voy---::V 84321753-752memo But what did he ask once he the administration’s Steven C Taylor - 190 E Center "" sawit? 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