entered World War I, these immigrants came up against a new “anti-German hysteria.” Schade, a German studies professor at the University of Cincinnati. Louis or Milwaukee or New York or Baltimore were fully integrated into American society,” says Richard E. “By 1917 these immigrants who came to Cincinnati or St. had 554 German-language newspapers, as well as German-language school systems that coexisted with English-language schools. Once here, they built restaurants and guesthouses that, in the German tradition, each had their own beer brewery. Many had come over in a migration wave in the late 19th century. But a century before, this line of thinking was used against another group that didn’t seem to be able to “assimilate”: German Americans.Īt the time, these roughly eight million Americans were the country’s largest non-English-speaking group. Kelly was talking specifically about immigrants from Latin American countries. They don’t speak English … They don’t integrate well they don’t have skills.” “In the countries they come from, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade educations are kind of the norm. “They’re overwhelmingly rural people,” he said. In a recent interview, White House chief of staff John Kelly told NPR that undocumented immigrants are “not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society.” And he listed a few reasons why:
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