WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Immigrants Are Assimilating, Just Like Always. “A new poll indicates that Hispanic immigrants, just like the many immigrants before them, are assimilating in pretty quick order. More Hispanics get their news from English language sources than from Spanish ones, and the gap is growing as time goes by. . . . There are legitimate questions about the rate of immigration and every serious country needs to police its frontiers, but Americans can make immigration policy from a standpoint of confidence and optimism. We are actually pretty good at integrating newcomers into American society, and this poll is one more piece of evidence that we haven’t lost our skills.”

And also, Obama is helping our immigration problem by converting America into the kind of place people emigrate from, instead of the kind of place people immigrate to. . . .