First, as a people, we need to recognize that it’s not just the numbers that matter, but also where the immigrants come from and the culture they bring with them to another country. As a social scientist report, all cultures are not equal. Some immigrants come and believe they can function in isolation, refusing to adapt. I suggest they must assimilate. Adapt to the culture they wish to live in
It is true that not all cultures are equal. If they were equal, the entire concept of culture would be nonsensical.
The philosophical question of whether the general sentiments she expresses are morally correct or morally incorrect is one which has vexed scholars, politicians, and the hoi polloi alike since humanity began systematically began farming, moving into settlement-style living arrangements, and creating systems of currency. Few questions are historically older ones than this.
These would be the implied questions: how much assimilation should be expected, to what degree should it be mandated by The State, and how much accommodation for other cultures are the "natives" rightfully obliged to provide? Acting as if these ancient questions have simple, cut-and-dry answers that everyone must subscribe to, else be branded as bad people, is unreasonable, IMHO.
I'd argue it's primarily when one approaches these grand questions with an attitude about the superiority of one's own culture (esp. if race-based) and/or introduces the concept of "state mandates" that they often cease to be interesting academic and philosophic questions, and become instead nefarious and morally questionable.
Still, I'd wager few of us would argue that, say, Afghanistan's current anti-democratic, hardcore patriarchal "culture" is not (in many if not most senses) inferior to the "culture" of, say, Finland. As such, we might well at least HOPE that persons arriving from such places will indeed assimilate, even if we'd also bristle at the idea of saying "they must, by State decree, else risk incarceration".
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