Democrat policies have encouraged millions of, at best, loosely vetted immigrants to live in America.
They've simultaneously dismissed the importance of good moral character and the need to integrate immigrants by having them adopt American values.
JFK celebrated America's diverse European immigrants.
After World War II, Americans were happy with immigrants who worked hard, were self-reliant, law abiding, valued education, and learned or spoke English.
As the descendant of Irish Catholic immigrants, JFK knew first-hand that when Irish Catholics integrated as Americans, the sky was the limit.
His successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, didn't care if immigrants integrated by adopting American values.
The problem with the act was that LBJ supported torching the idea that immigrants must be integrated through adopting American values.
Democratic leaders framed integration as hegemonic and attracted new immigrants to their party by saying that, once in America, they didn't actually need to become Americans.
Because so many new immigrants were non-English speakers, English was the first American value to go.
"Immigrants from Mexico have the lowest rates of English proficiency, followed by those from Central America." Many of those who speak only Spanish have lived in the United States for more than 20 years.
Things in America would have been different if Kennedy's vision, enshrined in 1958's A Nation of Immigrants, had remained America's official policy.
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