Young Hispanic immigrants still have the opportunity to attain what they endeavor. However, due to current events tensions between whites and immigrants have surged and immigrants have had to endure a hostile environment. Unfortunately, these are not unfamiliar grounds for immigrants. As Eric Liu claims, “there was a time when assimilation did quite strictly mean whitening…mimicry of the stylized standards of the WASP gentry was the… sole method of ensuring that your origins would not be held against you” (pg. 1, para. 3). This was during the first half of the twentieth century, before the Immigration Act of 1965 and the global quota, when individual quotas were designed to ensure that most immigrants were European in order to preserve the
