I couldn't agree with you more. I am second generation, my grandmother walked across the Rio Grande around 1909 to stay with relatives until the revolution was over. The extended family lost, she married an american cotton farm worker in Texas- hence my father. My father was totally against bilingual education (he had to demonstrate the english learned at school when he came home everyday or be punished).
He often told me that without being forced to learn and speak english he would never have bothered, living in the Bario in San Antonio. Instead he served our nation in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, obtained an A.S. degree while in the service, finished his B.S. after retirement, spoke and wrote English, Spanish, Arabic, German, some Japanese, and was studying Greek when he passed away.
He believed in the American Melting Pot - Be AMERICAN first, don't forget your roots but remember our Nation's strength comes from out similarities not our differences, Americans take the best from all cultures and adopt it as our own.
I apolagize for the length.
Absolutely. The Dividers, the Hyphenators, aren't interested in a strong America; they're only interested in developing wedges.
Good story, thanks.