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Catholic Father Admits Hispanics Do Not Want to Assimilate

Father Esequiel Sanchez, director of the Office for Hispanic Catholics in Chicago, admits on public television station PBS what I've been saying loud and clear on this blog for at least a year -- many of today's immigrants do not come to the U.S. to become Americans and become part of the American culture. They do not wish to learn English. They do not wish to accept our culture or our language as part of their new life. Instead, they want to recreate their homeland here in the U.S.

According to Fr. Sanchez,

Hispanics don't assimilate. They just don't. They wind up -- you can't assimilate with that kind of history behind you. We're not assimilating into a 200-year-old history, we're trying to bring a 500-year history to a new context. Geographically we're closer than any immigrant group has been to their own country. And so we have access to those cultural historical places in our lives, so we can't just give that up to take something else.

I rest my case.