Description:A prominent political commentator and respected foreign
correspondent discusses the turmoil over illegal immigration and
bilingualism, anchoring her points with exhaustive research, interviews,
and testimonies of people on both sides of this explosive issue.
Well known for her 30 years of journalism, as a columnist for the United Press Syndicate and a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News,
Georgie Anne Geyer's analysis of the fracturing of American society
draws on extensive research and discussions with academics. While she
deplores illegal immigration, she is disturbed too by recent trends
among legal immigrants toward resisting assimilation, to the extent even
of denying the primacy of English in some cases. The result, she
argues, is a profound identity crisis in the United States, a nation
created by immigrants but now with its established values threatened by a
continued inflow of non-Americans.