[Dante3]

Yesterday The Washington Times ("Report urges Virginia to boost immigrant aid," Nov. 12, '03, p. B2), that a General Assembly study (Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission report) concluded that Virginia should do more for Asian and Hispanic immigrants.

Apparently there are concerns that it is more difficult for illegal aliens to get driver's licenses and notes that need more access to services and information in native languages.

IMHO, if they are too lazy to learn English, tough! What a sense of entitlement to think they move to another country and there the people should learn their language.

[HiJinx]

It should be obvious that, for whatever reason, politicians are courting the illegal vote.

Personal experience here is that a good immigrant learns the host language. My in-laws immigrated from Italy in the early 1900s, and they insisted that the kids learn English. My son's in-laws immigrated from Mexico in the '30s, and they did likewise. His wife, whose maiden name was Garcia, knows little or no Spanish. I was stationed in Germany twice...my wife and I both took pains to learn enough of the language to survive on the economy.

We need to get back to that idea, or we may cease to exist. Diversity will divide us and conquer us.