[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.

[MineralMan]

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

While that's true, of course, it often takes some time for new immigrants to learn English. In the meantime, they need to work.

I'm not talking about illegals. But, take for example the Hmong immigrants in the US. They came here by invitation of our government. It takes them, particularly the older immigrants, quite a while to learn the language. They still have to work, though.

[GOP_1900AD]

Well,even here at FR, there is a crowd who will declare that any call to assimilate is "racist." Who are they? They are the pan Slavic crowd. Good thing we don't have a pan Latin crowd. Pan movements, the scourge of Europe and one of the root causes of WW2, are now getting a dangerous foothold here in the US and nothing is being done to stop them.

[united1000]

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.

 

I agree with you. Accommodations for non english speaking immigrants are on the rise to the point where we will end up in the same position as Europe.  Our firefighters here are passed up for promotion if they don't learn to speak spanish etc.. 

 

I agree with:

"These (cases) are going to continue to grow until we have a commitment to have everyone speak English," said Tim Schultz, spokesman and staff counsel for U.S. English Inc., a Washington, D.C., group dedicated to preserving English in the United States.

"Businesses should have a right to have their employees speak English," he said. "The solution is a bigger-picture solution: Make sure immigrants are learning English."

[JSteff]

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

Easier would be to declare English the official language or the U.S. Then make it a rule that immigrants must know it or can not get citizenship.