[FITZ]

although if someone doesn't want to learn it, they have the "right" not to do so

The "rights" appear to be all one-way ---the illegals have a right to come here without following the laws, they have the right to keep their language and culture, when that doesn't work out so well, they have the right to taxpayer money to support them. Americans seem to have no rights in this matter.

[Torie]

You seem to have packaged a bundle of rights that are perhaps subject to unbundling. Just a thought. Perhaps we should avoid the bundle game to the extent it obfuscates, misleads, and contributes to irrational prejudice. In any event, unlike most, I think the solvent of American culture will moot most of this over time, and a shorter time than few here perceive. Plus, the birth rate south of the border has collapsed to close to replacement rates, and will be there soon. That is the evidence, and what is offered to the contrary is not really evidenced based. It is based on hysteria, and some other stuff.