Ah, how you say? "Immigration"

This article in the Washington Post (as much news as the New York Times, but less cultural condescension--"Oh, you haven't been the Met this week, well good luck sprucing up the cave, plebe"--and more political condescension--"Oh, you've never been to cocktail party at Senator Graham's house in Georgetown, well good luck sprucing up the cave, plebe") is a nice little outline of immigration history. Let's all remember that German and Italian immigrants didn't speak English when they first came here, and brough their culture with them, and everybody freaked out for no reason (the Irish weren't even considered "white," no shit!) and now it's fine. More interestingly, other than some pernicious racist quota laws (modern immigration isn't above those old quota numbers much anyway) the US didn't even have passports, let alone "illegal" immigrants. If you weren't carrying TB and had a strong back, we pretty much let you in. So next time someone informs you of the dangers of illegal immigration, go ahead and tell them to STFU and go back to Germany or wherever.