No matter how the debate on immigration plays out, it's safe to predict that large numbers will continue to immigrate to America every year for decades to come. As lawmakers debate the Who, How Many ...

Saritha Prabhu of Clarksville is a USA TODAY NETWORK Tennessee columnist. This June marked a personal milestone for me: I’ve spent as many years here in America as I have in my birth country, India. I ...

Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for International Studies and the author of A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on ...

Respectfully, so-called assimilation is not the solution. In fact, the question that no one is asking or answering is: What are we expecting any demographic in the United States to assimilate to? I am ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Growing up in La Puente in the 1980s, Alex Espinoza was a typical child of the Reagan era. He collected “Star Wars” action figures and played with Rubik’s Cube. But Espinoza was Mexican, born in ...

In his immigration speech on Thursday, President Obama heralded America as a "nation of immigrants" defined not by blood or birth, but by "fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear." If ...

What does it mean to assimilate? And in that process, what is lost? Poet Vanessa Angelica Villarreal was born in McAllen, Texas, a city on the U.S.-Mexico border. Starting from a young age, she held a ...

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Many of you will recognize these now-famous lines as spoken by the Borg, the arch antagonists of the Star Trek franchise. As I sat down to write this ...