They’re opportunistic layabouts because they speak Spanish, in a border area where Spanish has pretty much always been spoken, alongside English? This isn’t an issue of immigrants refusing to learn English - this is an issue of people living in an area with a long tradition of Spanish. Nearly 50 percent of people in NM speak Spanish (far more than any other state), and thay is even more true in certain parts of the state. Hell, New Mexico even has its own separate Spanish dialect.
I went to that town often to buy apple cider... and today racially the town is roughly 80 percent white American, 20 percent Hispanic.
So this isn't a town that even comes close to being a town where 'Spanish' is predominant - and never has been that I've seen since my first visit there in the late 40's.
The Village of Corrales is a small, treasured oasis located within a large, fast-growing metropolitan area. The Village is bordered on the east by the Rio Grande and, across the river, by the Sandia Indian Reservation. To the south is the City of Albuquerque while to the west and north is the City of Rio Rancho.
Our money is not printed in Spanish. The Constitution is not printed in Spanish. The wars America fought, to win our independence, to preserve our freedom and to bring freedom to others weren’t won speaking Spanish.