DISQUS

Once again, we've imported a strident underclass, around 30 million illegal aliens, by some estimates, and now we just can't understand why libraries and bookstores are becoming museums, if not distant memories?
A typical Mexican immigrant is not going to be reading Bertrand Russell, Mark Twain, or Herman Mellville. They don't care.
Even if they do graduate high school, and the stats say that's not necessarily likely, they are not going to be reading up on the Civil War, the biography of George Washington, or how the French helped us win the Revolution.
Even if they could understand it, reading at a sixth grade level, it's not relevant to their culture. It is not relevant to their children, since they will identify with their parents culture, before ours.
We wanted to establish a high population of an underclass, while the middle-class hightailed it to Oregon, and other states, well now we've got it.
Stop lamenting over something you asked for, go to Del Taco, and order a cheap burrito. You'll feel better.

“It would be like San Francisco or New York shutting down its library,” she says.

Uh... no. It would be like a podunk beach town, with a tradition of incompetent city leadership. A town overrun with illegal aliens, many who drop out before graduating high school, closing down a facility that isn't used because so many of it's occupants can't read above sixth grade level.
The problem with our "diversity is good" advocates is that with unmanaged diversity, there comes a price. In this case, the closing of community learning and reading centers.
I don't think there is a "main library" in Tijuana. If you import millions of people from that mentality, why is there surprise with the affected community reflects that mentality?
In Mexico, we have a longstanding failed government infrastructure. If the United States didn't give them loans they will never pay back, as well as a means for Mexicans to send money back to their country, Mexico would be awash in blood and human misery.
Why should we be surprised when our standard of living goes down, as Long Beach's unassimilated Mexican population goes up?