You mean back when they were in the minority and assimilated and showed respect to our laws and culture. Now the southwest is starting to look like little Mexico and you have a difficult time finding anyone who can speak English. It has been said in the future the country will be brown and it will look just like the countries the people moved from. It has been said with all of our diversity over the years the one thing that kept the people connect and together was a common language. We have a larger and larger number of individuals living in the country that can't even read the Constitution let alone understand it.