John Mearsheimer

So when I hear Donald Trump and others arguing that immigration is a terrible thing,

This is ridiculous.

Immigration is what made us great, right?

It's when my relatives came over in the middle of the 19th century from Germany and Ireland, right?

Yeah.

Just very quickly on this.

That's fascinating.

Sam Huntington's book, Who Are We?

Which in many ways, I love that book, but it has one fundamental flaw.

And a number of people told him beforehand that that flaw existed and he didn't fix it.

But Sam argues in the book that we have large numbers of Hispanics in this country.

And we're doing a very poor job of integrating them into the mainstream.

And they're not becoming Americans.

And because many of them are concentrated in the southwest of the United States, unlike other ethnic groups that were spread out all over God's little green acre, right, we're going to have this cohesive group of Spanish-speaking people.

Americans who are going to want to break away and the United States is no longer going to be a reasonably coherent nation state.

He's wrong.

All the evidence is that Hispanics are integrating into the American mainstream more quickly and more effectively than the European immigrant groups that came starting around 1835.

If you look at immigration from Europe into the United States, leaving aside the original WASPs who came over and founded the place,

The immigrants start coming in large numbers in 1835, and we really don't shut the door until 1924, right?

This is a crude overview.