I am so uninformed on this it's ridiculous but I think a lot of people are. If you ever talk to someone who cares about immigration and has for a while these details become real evident. - I'm just saying that as a disclaimer. The INA does set out a limit though and Mexicans are capped as a percentage as I understand it, it certainly seems to me that leaves like 88% technically who would come from just about anywhere. That's where I thought the lottery comes in.
I'm not really a fan of diversity as a means of ordering things. I like diversity as an idea - on campus, in an office, in any given situation you have work or learn through, but not because I think race is some magic thing. I just think people from different backgrounds and experiences make thinking and doing better. Groupthink is dangerous, and also: boring.
I'm Catholic, and I am actually pretty all right with more Catholics coming into the country. I personally think Central America and South America and Caribbean should be a focus of the economy in my city (outside of tourism), so I'm pretty pro that. I also am not sure why I should see people from Brazil and Honduras being more homogeneous that people from say Norway and Italy. I mean I am trying to understand what I personally should be getting from diversity? I like Irish pubs. I like Norwegian Christmas traditions. I like the Pakistani place that opened up in suburbia. I like the Cuban pastry place in mid-city.
I'll also say Hispanics were gold twice in my life - once when my sister's house flooded in Houston and during Katrina. Those people were the f there for us. Bang, there, cleaning up, working their ### off, mold, drywall, roofing, canal work, here there everywhere doing the worst most badly needed jobs when we - I mean America right, because we're America? - needed it most. I've got their back whether they know it or not. You want these guys on your team when the ####'s down, seriously.