Modern society tells me to press 1 for English.
That's not the problem. The problem is the same one faced by those progressives who argue for massive government works jobs like we had during the Great Depression -- this is no longer a society where tens of millions of people can be gainfully employed doing unskilled labor. So if we import large numbers of unskilled workers who don't even speak the language, we are flooding the labor pool for those kind of jobs. That depresses wages for those Americans who
are in that category.
How can you say illegals are stealing American welfare out of one side of your mouth, and say they ain't integrated outside the other?
You know...I really can't stand it when people ascribe arguments to me that I never made. I never claimed they were "stealing welfare".
That being said, if your idea of desireable "integration" is the ability to accept handouts from the government - either in the form of free subsidized hospital care, free public education, etc.. -- then we have a fundamentally different understanding of what America should desire from its immigrants.