Refuse to assimilate

Sat., Feb. 18, 2017

America can’t be “a great melting pot” if immigrants refuse to melt. For 200 years people who have come to this country have been willing to assimilate, adopting our laws and aspects of our culture while retaining some aspects of their former culture.

Now we have immigrants who refuse to assimilate, demanding to retain all aspects of their own culture and even wishing to be governed by their own code of law. Some come with the desire not only to be able to live outside our culture but to harm any of us who do not adhere to their religious beliefs.

This is not immigration, it is invasion.

Terry Griner

Spokane

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