AT VDARE, Vincent Chiarello compares Italian immigrants to Hispanics. Why were Americans never expected to wade through Italian in the course of doing everyday business? Chiarello writes:

Italian-Americans were not coddled, but systematically pushed into assimilation. During the first half of the twentieth century, federal and state governments neither established nor funded anything like the bi-lingual education programs which have, if anything, slowed down the recent immigrant absorption. Historically, schools actually began the assimilation process: there was only one language of instruction,and only one flag visible in the classroom.

Also, a reader interviews a Senegalese immigrant attending the pro-amnesty rally in Washington on April 10. The African says he would go back to his native country and run his business there if it were too expensive to achieve citizenship in this country.

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