Dr. Lift Truck:
Certainly I do not condone immigrants that came to the US illegally nor am I far left liberal very much a conservative. But I do have empathy for those that came/come here legally but do not have a command of our version of the English language (I've labeled Americanese). My grand father came here legally from Sweden to homestead in SW North Dakota. He new "O" or little of our language on day one. My father immigrate from Italy, prior to WWI, came thru Ellis Island also - knew zero of the English language. He picked it up in the coal mines of Minnesota. He picked it up enough to enlist in the US Army infantry when WWI broke out to gain his citizenship & was mustard gassed in the battle of Muese-Argonne. Both these men came her to seek a better life, like many other immigrants from Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Norway,China, Ireland, etc. etc. during the period of Great Immigration they help build the USA. These people were given all kinds of "nicknames" & labels as a group - most of which still can be heard daily, especially in the large older cities - NYC, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, etc, But someone gave them a chance to succeed. That is, what I believe the initiator of this post is trying to do.
People from Mexico are intelligent, eager to learn, very analytical, I have found by travel to their county for business over a five year period, but the masses of people are ignorant, primary reason they are only afforded a public education up to the 6th grade - after that they must pay - only a few can afford it.
I will tell you 1/2 of my life I lived North of the Mason Dixon Line & the other Half South of it. Does that make me 1/2 good or 1/2 bad or half A _ _ed or still just a dam Yankee?