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The hell it didn't, together with the larger problem of illegal mass migration from Mexico and Central America! There are some areas in the US that resemble Latin America. My former neighborhood looks like Mexico and not US now, with all store signs in Spanish, "Salon de Belleza", "Carniceria Jalisco" and everybody you see on the street is Mexican/Central American.
You can play sensible Derec and talk of vetting and illegal immigration all you want but it’s statements like this that undergird all of what you say.
In a nation of immigrants, what is the US supposed to look like?
Does it stop when one’s own cultural is well represented, when others are so in the minority that society as a whole works to benefit that majority with a wink and a nod?
If there is a “look of the US”, it is that of change. Now this change is slow enough that each generation growing up in its insular community of like people of their relations and parents friends gets to grow out of that community and see the United States as it really is: a nation of immigrants, always changing, occasionally pausing, and hopefully evolving. Some grow and embrace this change. Others yearn for that little America they knew as a child.