[Thorin]

Bilingualism has done oh so much for Canada and wherever else it has been tried. But I gather we shouldn't worry about it because you think it's just spiffy? After all, as long as we are all united in our support for El Jefe Bush, what more unity do we need?

This has nothing to do with being able to speak more than one langauge. The issue is whether those born in America should have to learn Spanish in order to assimilate to the immigrants, rather than the immigrants assimilating to us by learning English. Apparently, you think this is no big problem. Most others do, which is why--as demographer William Frey of the University of Michigan has demonstrated--native-born Americans tend to leave any area that becomes inundated with immigrants.

Under the Bush plan, though, we won't have any place left to go, because every portion of the country will be inundated by all the new immigrants: the Bush plan imposes NO numerical limits on the number of new immigrants who can come here.

[sinkspur]

Immigrant children have to learn English in Texas; I don't know how you'd force a Hispanic adult who speaks only Spanish to learn English.

Most others do, which is why--as demographer William Frey of the University of Michigan has demonstrated--native-born Americans tend to leave any area that becomes inundated with immigrants.

Kinda like when all the Italians moved into New York a hundred years ago.

It is as it has always been. People like to live with people like them.