Mainstream Media Getting It: Latino Immigrants Are Immigrating

By Ian Reifowitz, Huffington Post

You may be familiar with Samuel Huntington. He’s the political scientist who, in his last years, offered dire warnings that Hispanic and especially Mexican immigrants behave profoundly differently than immigrants coming to the U.S. from other countries, that they stubbornly refuse to integrate to such a degree that they will ultimately “divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages.” Huntington referred to this problem as “The Hispanic Challenge.”

For years, the dominant trope in the media followed Huntington’s line. It didn’t matter that scholars were demonstrating that Huntington was wrong. As early as 2007 there was this article in the academic journal Perspectives in Politics called “Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a Threat to American Identity?” In short, the answer was: No. The authors found:…

Click on the picture to read the full story.