Do you believe if the INS enforced the laws against illegal immigration as we pay them to do, we would even be discussing this? Before the massive invasion in the last 20 years from south of the border, most if not all American Hispanics were assimiliated, knew English and were part of the culture. It's because of all the illegals that have invited themselves in and are demanding we adapt to their ways there's so much friction.
Unless the INS, Congress, the President, or whoever in government takes seriously what is happening in our country, expect us to be the Yugoslavia of the Western Hemisphere in the next decade or two.
Spanish was an official language of NM long before the current wave of illegal aliens showed up.