Unfortunately that is not the general direction these days. Immigration today is not like the immigration of old.
Todays immigrants are savvy with the help of a spokesperson for the "community". They push for legalization or recognition of their old country's laws.
Our latest addition of Hmong to St. Paul this summer (it's estimated at 5,000 but nobody is exactly sure of the number) will already have classrooms in a number of schools set apart to teach in Hmong.
This is an example of what I find disconcerting as I see the US being weakened by becoming not a melting pot, but many different nations instead.
It's the same situation here but with hispanic kids and then the Chinese and Korean. I've not talked to enough Russians to know about them. They want to make it possible for immigrant children to be exempt from the english regents. That's already handicapping them with a general diploma and not a regents diploma.
I hate liberal special interest groups. They don't care about these people.