Really? Gosh, I didn't know that.
whether they speak English or not.
The infiltration and mainstreaming of the Spanish language was due to the fact that illegals have moved over here and clustered in ghettos where only Spanish is spoken.
IOW, there are millions of Americans with all the rights of any other citizen who don't speak English.
You can thank the 1986 amnesty for that one.
So called Repubs may want to ignore those facts while Dems pander to them. Who do you think they're going to vote for generation after generation?
Democrats.
You may know as much about Mexican immigration as you do about the moon. It's a big sucker, but you've never been close enough to it to explore it except to know it's there and a few things you've been told about it. What if what you've been told is wrong, at least part of it...?
I lived in Houston for 25 of my 34 years....I am well qualified to talk about the effects that illegal immigration throughout the 80s and 90s has had on property values, jobs, and the general cleanliness of the city.
Personally, I'm very glad GWB isn't ignoring those who immigrated from Mexico. Like it or not, they're a big, and growing, part of the American melting pot.
If it were a true "melting" pot, they would be learning English rather than demanding bilingual education and demanding government services be available in Spanish.
Like it or not, that's the way it is.
I Don't like it and I won't accept that that is the way it has to be.
I'm all for controlling our borders and stopping illegal immigration, but that's quite a different problem from recognizing those who are here and are quite legal despite not speaking English.
see prior comment about 1986 amnesty.
Wrong. It's been that way since long before that. I remember going to school with first generation English speaking descendents of illegal Mexican immigrants in the 1940s. That was just 1 state south of Canada, too.