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Hanson: I think that superficially this is not new, but on examination I don't think we've ever had anywhere from 8 to 12 million people primarily concentrated in one geographical area that came here under illegal auspices. That's new.
And more importantly, the attitude of the host is new. We had a very brutal melting pot assimilation ideology in the 19th century. ?/B>
We now in California have communities where people are coming from Mexico illegally not because of skills or not because they were let in by the U.S. government but because of family ties.
So you have whole enclaves of people who find that they can recreate Mexico to a certain degree without assimilating after a single generation. So really we have two communities.
