"In fact, it is probably time to send the word "diversity" packing".

What is wrong with giving credit where credit is due, in large part the US is the greatest nation because of our DIVERSITY. People from all around the world come here. In large part, it is the best of each of thier cultural traits and ideas and contributions that bubble to the top.

Naysayers aside, lets give credit where credit is due.

Goodbye, U.S. Constitution!

don't matter to me. We are all human being aren't we?

You should wake up BEFORE you compose such absurd opinion pieces.
Having a few million spanish infiltrators come to America in the 80's was a great thing for us. The addition to our culture THEN was laudable and of considerable value.

BUT, this is NOW and we are seeing counties in New York and Los Angeles overrun with illegals. This is far beyond diversity. This is international war! Will you wait till Salt Lake County is 51% "minority" before you wake up?

Do it now, Deseret News, and help America develop the resolve and solutions to deal with this growing menace.

Note: The menace is from an invading culture changing our country into their country. Not from the individual merit in people or the admirable traits most illegals share.

Utah has always been a melting pot of people from all over the world coming to Zion. The problem lies in a lack of civic responsibility. Freedom is not free. It was won by the shedding of blood and is maintained by civic responsibility. It will be lost by the lack of it.
Being here illegally shows disregard for the civic responsibility that maintains our freedom. The very things the illegals come here to get, they are destroying, and we could all go down with it.
The illegals are not entirely responsible. They are pawns. The government's failure to enforce the laws of the land (The Constitution) on all levels have allowed this to happen. It is not in a corrupt government's best interest for the citizens to be free. Herein lies the problem.
Those who are here legally (whatever ethnic background) and exercise civic responsibility, Welcome!

re Diversity isn't new | 6:40 p.m.

We would all do well to know/remember that the Utah Pioneers who came here in 1947 came here illegally without permission from Mexico whose land it was at the time. Also Much of the Unites States is founded on land which was given by treaty to the Indians then taken back without respecting the treaties (Illegal)

Goes to show that all that is illegal is not bad. Bad is Bad, Illegal is Illegal, and Illegal is not necessarily bad.

Diversity has served us well in the past and will continue to do so in the future.

Ah yes, we the enlightened ones must not disagree for it is obvious that the Serbians love living with the Croatians, as do the Palestinians with the Israelites, the French with the Canadians, the Muslims with the Parisians, the Russians living in Georgia, etc.

The difference with the US historically has been that most immigrants wanted to be Americans. But the Latino invasion we are currently suffering will in the end bring the same kind of suffering to our country because of the militant minority that is not here to assimilate but to infiltrate.

For someone who wants to banish "diversity" from the lexicon, the editor continued to use the term liberally.;-)

Yes a sprinkling adds color and flavor but at some point it becomes overpowering and therein lies the problem. Many invaders have no intention to "assimilate". They seek power and to wrest control of the western states in the hopes of assimilating with Mexico. To do so, they don't need a majority, just to become a critical factor in who is elected to office. For either Presidential candidate or their parties to come out in favor of upholding the Constitution would be political suicide.

Notice that the battle lines in Georgia are drawn along lines of loyalty emboldened either by diversity of religion or language with no more desire to assimilate than oil desires to blend with water. The same is true in France with immigrant Muslims, Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, French and English in Quebec, Croats and Serbs in Croatia. In each and every case "diversity" has not been enriching but has been enflaming and has been the cause of misery and bloodshed.

What an inane editorial. The Deseret News insults readers' intelligence by posturing that the whole diversity issue is simply about cultural enrichment - when the big fat elephant in the room the editorial writer refuses to acknowledge is illegals' lawlessness, flaunting of our Constitution and the warfare at the border! The average common-sense Utah reader knows what this editorial is really about - more preaching to accept illegals under the guise of embracing diversity. At least they didn't call me a racist this time.