Your e-mails: 'A nation of immigrants'

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(CNN) -- According to data released by the Census Bureau, the number of immigrants living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years. We asked our readers how immigration is impacting their community. Here is a selection of your responses, some of which have been edited:

I lived in Europe for four years. One thing I would point out is that while I was working in Europe, I NEVER had a supervisor or manager of a diverse background. Everyone is homogenous. One thing that makes me very proud to be an American is that we have a diverse management corporate structure. I've had Black, Latino and Asian supervisors. So a diverse society will always be more productive. The U.S. worker is the most productive in the world!
Trino, Bomaire, Georgia

America became great because it was founded on a European/Judean-Christian work ethic and morality. That's about to go in the tank. Show me a country south of the border that isn't riddled with corruption and poverty despite having vast natural resources.
Charles, Charlotte, North Carolina

We are a nation of immigrants; things are what they are, and wanting to change or bemoan that fact is just unrealistic. It is not immigration that is changing America, it is the overall lessening quality of life as we outsource jobs to other countries, as we invest less in public education and healthcare, and more in pointless war, and it is the fact that we have a growing tax base, dwindling fuel supplies, a clearly aging boomer population, later retirement age with job declines, and a lack of equal access to healthcare, higher education, and jobs for newcomers. We have much bigger things wrong with this country than "immigrants".
Michael, Dallas, Texas

Perhaps as we, the United States, embrace our diversity, we are also losing sight of who we were. Instead of catering to the Hispanic population of this nation, we should be helping them assimilate into our culture, not us into theirs. By making this country bi-lingual, we ensure they will not assimilate, but dominate.
Phillip, Orlando, Florida

The truth is that hardworking American citizens do not want to have immigrants pushed down their throats and their jobs taken away. It's like being forced to eat spoiled meat and being told it "taste good". I live in Tampa, Florida where cheap labor comes at a price, we are forced to deal with people who can not speak English and they can not drive, they cause accidents, and they do not carry a diver's license or insurance. If the people of Mexico are determined to work hard in the USA, why can't they work hard in their own country, organize, then make a change and difference there? We don't want them! GO HOME!!!
Mike, Tampa, Florida

In Canada and America, unless you're a North American Indian, you're an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants. So who are we to deny anyone entrance to our countries? Having said that though, if you come to North America, become a North American or stay home.
Paul, Ontario, Canada

I do not care what color, shape, etc., they are as long as they are legal, have a job, and learn ENGLISH, obey the laws of the United States, and do not try and take over our U.S. with their customs, if they want their customs stay in their country, if they don't want to live by our rules and laws and work to make America better, stay where they are. Know that if they break the laws of our land they will be made to leave. No free anything, just like my grandparents, make your own way by GOOD, OLD fashioned, HARD, HONEST WORK.
Mary Jo, Chelmsford, Massachusetts

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