[XRdsRev]

Whoever thinks that immigrants from south of the border are learning English in droves, needs their head examined.

I have worked with painters, carpenters and laborers who have been in this country for years, they are good guys and hard working but they don't even try to learn English. We have to learn Spanish to communicate, it's ridiculous. We need a translator on some jobs.

[chudogg]

I too work with Mexicans who have been in the country for years and dont know a word of English. You would think that after years of living here, you could communicate basic commands to tell them what to do. But they just nod their heads and say "Si" and i know to go find a translator.

[ExSoldier]

"....but they don't even try to learn English."

Well, why should they? When the folks born and raised in this country so willingly submit to learning theirs? Worse, we lean over backwards to accomodate them by allowing, even encouraging them to post signs for their businesses in their native languages in H-U-G-E letters with teeeeny English translations below as an afterthought. That's the way it's done right here in the town I was raised in, Miami-Dade County; in the area lovingly referred to as Little Havana. This practice is quickly expanding to the rest of the county.