Mark Simone on WOR.

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Let's go to Joan in the Bronx.

Joan, how you doing?

Hi, Mark.

Good morning.

My father, after he retired, became a lobbyist for Israel. And the family, we all thought he was crazy. I mean, why would he want to spend his retirement schlepping on the shuttle every week? And he told us, he said, there are problems here in America. And one of the problems

is, is there's no assimilation going on. There's no learning of American culture. By who?

By society, by the politicians, by the education. But you're talking about illegal immigrants?

Who's not a similar?

Legal and illegal.

I mean, we're going back about 20 years, you know, 20 or 25 years.

He didn't, he saw that the immigrants coming in were basically balkanizing.

And he felt. Oh, they were balkanizing.

I'll look that up, see what that means.

Yeah, they were separating themselves from society.

Nobody was making.

But who were we talking about?

What group is separating themselves from society?

Well, he was thinking mainly, at that time, he was thinking about immigrants,

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