[FITZ]

Where I live very many people aren't learning to speak English, I don't think there's anything wrong with speaking Spanish, I speak it and I like the language and I wouldn't like to travel in Mexico without it but when you have large cities where people cannot communicate with each other at all, there seems to be something wrong with that. I don't see how promoting a common language is even something to argue about, it seems to be only common sense to promote it.

[Torie]

it seems to be only common sense to promote it.

Yep, and I and Luis whole heartedly agree as a matter of policy. But not via denying citizenship to qualifying legal residents, and not via denying entry to legal immigrants because they cannot yet speak English. At least that is my view. As to illegals, we are hypocrits. But however messy what we are doing, it is my view that this will not represent the end of American Anglo Saxon culture as we know it, at least the parts we most treasure. I simply have more confidence in the resiliance of the ideas that animate it to worry much, plus the demographic points that I keep harping on.