{"id":11362,"date":"2018-08-23T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11362"},"modified":"2018-08-23T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:46:03","slug":"the-diversity-of-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-diversity-of-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diversity of Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>I live on farm beside a rural avenue in central California, the fifth generation to reside in the same house. And after years of thefts, home break-ins, and dangerous encounters, I have concluded that it is no longer safe to live where I was born. I stay for a while longer because I am sixty-five years old and either too old to move or too worried about selling the final family parcel of what was homesteaded in the 1870s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofresnocounty.com\/agtours\">Rural Fresno County<\/a>\u00a0used to be one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the United States. I grew up with first-, second-, and third-generation farmers\u2014agrarians of Armenian, German, Greek, Mexican, Japanese, Portuguese, Punjabi, and Scandinavian descent.<\/p>\n<p>Race and ethnicity were richly diverse; yet assimilation was the collective shared goal\u2014made easier because immigration was almost entirely a legal and measured enterprise. No one much carried for the superficial appearance of his neighbors. My own Swedish-American family has intermarried with those of Mexican heritage. My neighbor\u2019s grandchildren are part white, Japanese, and Mexican. The creed growing up was that tribal affiliation was incidental, not essential, to character.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/diversity-illegal-immigration\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution I live on farm beside a rural avenue in central California, the fifth generation to reside in the same house. And after years of thefts, home break-ins, and dangerous encounters, I have concluded that it is no longer safe to live where I was born. I stay for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111,16,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Xg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":643,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-flip-side-to-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11362,"position":0},"title":"The Flip Side to Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner Forgotten in the latest hype about illegal immigration is the cycle of lawlessness that follows illegal entry into the United States. 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