Should Immigration Require Assimilation

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A prominent discussion in modern day politics has to do with the amount of inflowing immigrants to the United States. Citizens are split between whether or not immigrants should assimilate to American mainstream culture. The author of “Should Immigration Require Assimilation?” is weighing the necessity of political assimilation for the yearly large amounts of new U.S citizens rather than cultural assimilation. The political assimilation that he is referring to is the “embracing of the principles of American democracy, identifying with U.S. history, and communicating in English.” It was surprising to me when I learned that the songwriter that wrote the national anthem said, “ If America Changes to the point that it is no longer a Christian