[PhiKapMom]

This is Bravo Sierra. When we lived in Texas and had some families come to our town that their Dad’s were part of some diplomatic missions (here legally) in San Antonio or business people sent here for business, their parents participated in school activities with no problems.

Now illegals are a different — not only do they not speak English, they have no intention of learning. I didn’t even know they were illegal until I asked one day why the parents didn’t come to parent conferences and was told they lived on the big ranch which they didn’t leave for fear of being deported.

Would hate to think what the dollar cost is to this Country for illegals. When we moved, I always had to provide a copy of my children’s birth certificate and shot record when they changed schools, why don’t they? How do they get around the law? I registered our three children in Boerne at the same time a family from Venzuela were registering two children in school and they had to provide proof of birth, passport, residency status and shot record before they could register. What happened to all of that? How can you have residency status if you are here illegally and get registered in school?

[The Pack Knight]

This is why I was furious when I heard Chris Dodd's haughty answer last night that making English the official language would discourage Americans from learning other languages.

Even better was Hillary's whining that such a law would actually require New York to print ballots only in English!! Incredible, considering the citizenship exam is currently only given in English, so therefore one would expect that anyone who is a citizen, and thus eligible to vote, to at least be conversant in English.

Of course, we've already seen Democrats in urban areas working to allow not citizens, including illegal aliens, to vote in local elections. How much longer until a state allows non-citizens to vote in federal elections? How much longer until they push to allow the citizenship exam to be administered in any language?

[Iwo Jima]

You are absolutely correct. I live in Texas, and we have always had to provide those documents to get enrolled in school. Why don’t they?