They've been USED to do so.
The legitimate extent of our entire f'n system was supposed to be limited to securing the inalienable rights of the individual; as per The American Declaration of Independence:
"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men.."
To secure them from whom? From those who would exploit human nature to manifest a fascist mercantile state of affairs under which:
"COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM"--Thomas Jefferson
The end result being not traditional American assimilation - but a 5th column.
But then I come across folks like these... who ARE proud to be Americans despite the challenges that have been erected to prevent it:


Just a bunch of dirty immigrants, right? Nah, looks to me as though some of them are learning to be Americans despite the odds.