What difference does it make to you whether illegal aliens learn English and assimilate, they jave TO GO, not assimilate.
PS---Mr. Brock mentioned Spanish AND Russian.
We have an illegal Russian immigrant problem?
BTW, stories like this have ALWAYS existed, with every single wave of immmigrants.
"Measures of great temper are necessary with the Germans," Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1753. "Those who come hither are generally of the most ignorant, stupid sort of their own nation, and . . . 'tis almost impossible to remove any prejudices they entertain. . . . Few of their children in the country learn English . . . and of the six printing houses in the province, two are entirely German, two half-German, half-English. . . . Advertisements intended to be general are now printed in Dutch [i.e., Deutsch] and English; the signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German. They begin of late to make all their . . . legal writings in their own language, which . . . are allowed in our courts, where the German business so increases that there is continual need of interpreters."
"Stop the flow of Germans into Pennsylvania, Franklin warned, or "they will soon so outnumber us, that . . . we will not in my opinion be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious."
A few generations after Franklin agonized over immigration from Germany, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was worrying about the influx from Central and Southern Europe. To slow it, he proposed a literacy requirement -- one that immigrants from Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Italy would be less likely to meet.
"The races most affected by the illiteracy test are those whose emigration to this country has begun within the last 20 years," Lodge explained in March 1896, "races with which the English-speaking people have never hitherto assimilated, and who are most alien to the great body of the people of the United States."
Let's not even get into the Irish...
Yeah, let's not, especially since most of them came legally. For the 10,000 or so that are here illegally, well then I guess when they're found out they'll have to go.
Again, slowly this time so you comprehend...if you have 10 million illegals in the country, and most do not speak English, people are going to want to know why. You conveniently want to keep the discussion on legal immigrants when you know the friction is not so much from them, but from the illegals. Remove the lawbreakers, and the assimiliation process will occur much quicker and smoother as it has in the past.