As I mentioned in my post, I don't care if they speak Spanish, or whatever language they want to speak. To become a naturalized citizen though, I believe a requirement of knowing basic English is appropriate.
The reason I brought it up however is because we have so much illegal immigration, and the illegals have no interest in learning the language, we are seeing stories like this one. The two issues are related.
Close the borders, enforce the laws, and many of these type problems will subside.
Now, stop and think for a second, that doesn't even make any sense.
The greatest fear that an illegal has is detection, because detection brings about repatriation, and avoiding that is an illegal's foremost concern.
Illegals are also among the most recent arrivals, thus English proficiency is a few years away. While I was able to learn the language in a relatively short period of time after our arrival here, it took my parents considerably longer, and my grandparents never learned English at all.
Now, my kids speak no Spanish whatsoever.
I am neither defending illegals nor justifying their being here, I'm just saying that given sufficient time, the same would happen to them.
Trust me when I tell you that it is inevitable.