Where we are Frum | Campaign for America’s Future:
Is he saying that Mexicans who go through a period of naturalization of nearly a decade (“Currently, the median number of years of U.S. residence between legal immigration and naturalization is around eight years“) [UPDATE: or, as digby points out, who were born here] “lack deep attachment to the American nation”? I invite Frum, with whom I’ve had friendly exchanges in the past, to answer me this question: how is your argument different from that of the 1920s nativists, including the Ku Klux Klan, who argued that my Jewish ancestors who became naturalized citizens–as well as Catholics from Eastern Europe—likewise couldn’t possibly develop a deep attachment to the American nation?