"Because the student's parents speak only Spanish, the aunt spoke on behalf of her sister's son."
Yeah, and I heard on the radio some NPR drivel, (I was channel surfing), detailing the plight of two (illegal) immigrants. One from El Salvador, just to show it's not all Mexicans. Both interviews were in Spanish with translations. These American wannabes didn't speak a word of English.
Come to America. Come legally, learn English, become AMERICAN or get the hell out.
Come to America. Come legally, learn English, become AMERICAN or get the hell out.
Huh, that's kinda of hard when the teachers unions are against English immersion because that will cut down on the money that fills their coffers from bi-lingual education.
But of course you blame the students and their families instead of yourself for your knee jerk ethnic animus(i.e such rhetoric as "criminal invaders"etc.) which leads such people to the arms of such leftist groups as the teachers unions, who promote such balkanization because of greed because bi-lingual education brings in much more money to their coffers than English immersion does.
"Come to America. Come legally, learn English, become AMERICAN or get the hell out. "
I was forwarded the following and your statement reminded me of it. Sums it all up pretty well.
The Chicago Daily Tribune, p. 4
7 January 1919
NEW YORK, Jan. 6. -- What was the last public statement by Col. Roosevelt was read last night at an "All-American concert" here under the auspices of the American Defense society, of which he was honorary president.
"I cannot be with you and so all I can do is to wish you Godspeed," it read. "There may be no sagging back in the fight for Americanism merely because the war is over.
"There are plenty of persons who have already made the assertion that they believe the American people have a short memory and that they intend to revive all the foreign associations which more directly interfere with the complete Americanization of our people. Our principle in this matter should be absolutely simple.
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact and American and nothing but an American.
"If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.
"We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people." -Theodore Roosevelt