They all speak Spanish.
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I would venture to say not ALL of them but....
If parents bring their 3 year olds to this country and in 15 years the now 18 year old doesn’t speak FLAWLESS (well, acceptable American) English, ‘hit the road jack’
I remember growing up with a classmate whose grandparents lived in the house next to his parents and while Italian was the MAIN language in the GP (they most always spoke ‘English’ ‘when outsiders’ were around) but virtually no Italian in his parents house.
He and his brothers & sisters spoke excellent English and were good students (HIS parents made that their project) there was no doubt in the fact that my buddy was ‘very’ Italian.
He married a light haired woman and his grandkids are about the same shade as mine
When the parents don’t speak English, the kids have to speak Spanish.
The Italian immigrant story is not the same as the southern invasion.