Posted on 09/02/2002 8:14:25 AM PDT by sweetliberty
Edited on 04/12/2004 2:10:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ask Odalia Ramirez if she speaks English and the Guatemala-born housewife will tell you "un poquito," or a little bit. But that doesn't limit Ramirez, 40, from getting by in Pico-Union, a predominantly Central American neighborhood where you can eat steamed corn "pupusas" stuffed with meat and cheese, put a down payment on a dream retirement home in El Salvador while doing your grocery shopping and have your taxes prepared by a Spanish-speaking accountant.
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Obviously not, and neither did the 60 to 70% of the population who want immigration reduced.
If enough voters make it an issue at the polls, current policies will change.
Agree. Michigan booted Abraham over the immigration disaster, it needs to be done nationwide.
I was there many years ago for just a few days and it is probably the one time I really felt I was in a foreign country. While most people who serviced the tourist trade spoke English quite well, most of the population spoke only French. I am not sure how it is now. Of course, I was 16 then so it was kind of an adventure.
Interestingly, I have made several trips across the Mexican border, and the locals there speak better English than most Mexicans I encounter here.
Guess I have no future as a comedian. :)
Read what I said originally. The first generation immigrants typically DON'T learn English. The second generation does, and is truly "bilingual." The bilinguality disappears almost completely by the third generation.
That's how it's always been.
And a large number of the kids learn ONLY English.
Point taken.
Americans leave in droves to get away from the effects, as well as the graffiti that starts showing up.
It's not only Mexicans, it's getting to be all third world immigrants and their unwillingness or inability to assimilate into the mainstream. I'm now starting to see signs, much like with the Spanish language, that state, "We Speak Portuguese (but in the Portuguese language). I'm starting to see Indians dorning their storefronts in Urdu or whatever language they speak. I'm seeing Thaiwanese opening up shops with storefronts dorned in straight Thai. I'm seeing an alien looking atmosphere that is becoming more and more unrecognizable from the all-American place that it was just four years ago.
Yet, we're supposed to take it, to see our country turned into a multicultural empire. We're expected to have a declining living standard, as well as to be forced out of our neighborhoods. It's okay for them not to speak nor write English. It's okay for them to suck up social services as well as take our jobs for penneys on the dollar.
The leadership of this country has gone mad, and the balkanization is now accelerating a massive rate. The whole world is flooding our beautiful Republic, and it is becoming trashed.
We have such overcrowded schools that we're going to have to build many more. Our trauma centers and medical offices are closing because they can't afford to stay open because of charity cases. The prisons here are bulging at the seams, something like 30% illegal aliens residing there.
No wonder that many older Californians are leaving the state.
The illegal aliens don't want to learn English because they don't have to - everything is translated for them. When I call my bank's automated number the first thing I hear is "For English, press one". We're being invaded, and we're paying for it. This is why I'll not vote for George Bush again. I really thought he would try to at least slow down the human invasion, but I was wrong.
I'll agree to that. Immigration's numbers are out of control, and it's time for a ten year moratorium.
They can come to NY if they like. There was a time not too long ago everyone in the frozen zone was California dreamin', now most I hear say they'll stay right where they are.
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