[united1000]

Luz Ornelas and Guadelupe Coronado say they were humiliated and degraded when their boss forbade them from speaking their native Spanish while working at a Family Dollar store on East Colfax Avenue.

[MineralMan]

I wonder how many of the customers of this Family Dollar store are Spanish-speakers. There are sure a lot of Spanish-speaking customers in the Dollar stores here in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In fact, bilingual clerks often get a little pay boost here.

[goldstategop]

If they don't like speaking our lingua nativa they can high-tail their asses back to Mexico where "humiliation" will be the least of their worries. If they want to live and work in this country, they should learn and speak English. Its not up to us to accomodate them.

[benjaminjjones]

This makes me think of those operations the police run to snag fugitive criminals, but instead of throwing a party or giving aways prizes, just deport all the illegals that sign up for the lawsuit.

[XJarhead]

I'm not anti-immigrant. I think immigration provides a stream of new blood that prevents us from getting stale, as long as those immigrants assimilate. Europe's problem is that their immigrants don't assimilate.

Federal employment law should be amended to permit English-only rules. Speaking English is the best way to push assimilation.

[Sthitch]

Does this mean that if I feel humiliated by two of my coworkers who speak Spanish, which I do not, I can sue? For all I know they could be talking about me, and establishing a hostile work place.

[Bikers4Bush]

The only travesty that I find in the whole article is the following.

"Federal rules forbid blanket English-only policies in workplaces."

[Vor Lady]

This is America, learn the language! My family managed to learn English with no government programs or accomadation. Expert linguists agree, the fastest way to learn a language, especially if one wants to, is by immersion. Learn the language or leave....

[GOP_1900AD]

Were they replaced by people who only KNEW HOW TO speak English, or, were they replaced by people WHO HAD THE GOOD SENSE TO SPEAK ONLY ENGLISH IN THE MIDST OF MAINSTREAM SOCIETY? A critical distinction. I bet it was the latter.

[Doogle]

...at one time it was consider bad manners to speak a foreign language in front of someone who didn't if you could speak english.

we've gone a long way in the PC wrong direction

from I usually use bad manners daily to I feel humiliated.

great example of how political correctness can damage a society.

Doogle

(I wonder if I can sue my local 7-11 because I felt humiliated in front of the clerks because I couldn't understand them?)

[bahblahbah]

Can you at least require them to know how to speak English and speak English to customers?

[tnlibertarian]

Luz Ornelas and Guadelupe Coronado say they were humiliated and degraded when their boss forbade them from speaking their native Spanish while working at a Family Dollar store on East Colfax Avenue.

"At least that's what we think they were saying. We really couldn't understand them."

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[citizen]

No effort to blend in here.

Invasion by any other name is still invasion.