Reaching 12.6 percent, this rate is higher than at any point since the mid-1920s. We are not going back to the time when Congress expressed an open worry that inferior races would taint the American bloodstream. However, we doubt again if an excess of wrong newcomers are pouring into this country. Their most resounding critics voice their stands as the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, integrate into the American society as previous generations did. Currently we realize our misperception of these racist views. With the passage of time, those alleged inferior races such as Italians, Romanians and so on became exemplary Americans and committed themselves to constructing the splendid country by various means. There is no reason why the new immigrants of this kind should not have the same success. Despite the fact that children of Mexican immigrants have better educational and professional attainment than their parents, these improvements remain stagnant (停滞的), according to Edward Telles, a sociologist of UCL

What is the author’s attitude towards the new immigrants?

For years, the United States has witnessed a constant increase of immigration rate (illegal immigration included). Reaching 12.6 percent, this rate is higher than at any point since the mid-1920s.

We are not going back to the time when Congress expressed an open worry that inferior races would taint the American bloodstream. However, we doubt again if an excess of wrong newcomers are pouring into this country. Their most resounding critics voice their stands as the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, integrate into the American society as previous generations did.

Currently we realize our misperception of these racist views. With the passage of time, those alleged inferior races such as Italians, Romanians and so on became exemplary Americans and committed themselves to constructing the splendid country by various means. There is no reason why the new immigrants of this kind should not have the same success.

Despite the fact that children of Mexican immigrants have better educational and professional attainment than their parents, these improvements remain stagnant (停滞的), according to Edward Telles, a sociologist of UCLA. In fact, the fourth generation is slightly worse than the third. A similar tendency among black Caribbean immigrants has also been pointed out by James Jackson of the University of Michigan. Telles fears that Mexican-Americans may fall into the same pitfalls as the American blacks—that large parts of the community may be trapped in a seemingly permanent state of poverty and underachievement. Similar to African-Americans, Mexican-Americans are under no other options but to go to segregated, substandard schools, and their dropout rate is higher than any other ethnic groups in this country.

We have been aware of the folly of rejecting other groups on the preconception of their ethnic/racial inferiority. But what is yet to be learned is how to put the process of Americanization into universal effect. The point I am trying to make does not lie in asking the immigrants to learn English or to adopt American lifestyles, which come into being naturally. However, as disputes over immigration heat up the campaign trail, we also should ask some broader issues about assimilation, about how to prevent people, once outsiders, from permanently being marginalized within these shores.

Compared with how to deal with undocumented workers, or how best to safeguard the border, it is a much larger question. The handling of this question influences not only the new immigrants but those native groups. It will exert more impact on our future than where we decide to set the admissions bar for the latest wave of would-be Americans. And it would be nice if we finally got the right answer.

• A、They gradually change America’s racist views.
• B、They will not meet with success in the new land.
• C、They cannot compare with their predecessors.
• D、They pave the way for forming a greater country.