All I said was the young ones seem to me to be learning English. How does all the stats you just posted dispute what I said?
>>>>All I said was the young ones seem to me to be learning English. How does all the stats you just posted dispute what I said?
Because you didn't read my mind? I posted on the run.
The town I grew up in here in NJ, that is all I saw too. Families with parents prominent in their foreign tongue, children assimilating.
But, when you live in a gateway town, it is a WHOLE different story.
>>>I think young Hispanics want to speak English.
My stats on the gateway community was based on that specific comment. In the gateway's, most of the children from the illegals are in the 'networks'. The 'network children' don't usually attend school because they live in harbor homes until they move to their next or final place.
Normal homes are bought, refinished so the basements are sheet rock separated and the cubby rooms are more like closests. I see anywhere from 5 to 12 children at a time living in the harbor homes. Those children are not assimilated.
Then, the teens from the gateway towns are all gangstas. They are not assimilating. They speak a gangsta tongue of street, Spanish and English.
The entire view of the immigrant issue as to whether they Spanish/English/Assimilation is all depending on how close to the gateways you live.
The downtowns that provide their services are all Spanish. Billboards, transportation vehicles, stores, et al. There is no attempt of English.