Thread: Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English

[quote=ScottS;240386]*sigh* ok, you said

How can you make it a law for an immigrant to read English when it isn't the law that a natural citizen read English, or read at all for that matter?

And now you say

I believe it might be the law for children to go to school, but you can't make them learn to read any more than you can make them learn algebra, or the multiplication table.

Okay, that's true... but what's the point? You can and should make them learn to read, just like you can make them learn algebra or the multiplication table (I'm a little slow, please bear with me)

As for Obama, things are starting to seem inevitable, huh??

It certainly does seem that way. I've already promised my wife I'm going to take her shooting again somewhere before inauguration day next year

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

It certainly does seem that way. I've already promised my wife I'm going to take her shooting again somewhere before inauguration day next year

That reminds me: I need to buy a rifle while it's still easy.

I would like the language laws, not to force immigrants to learn English (who's going to enforce it anyway?), but to cut down on all the bi- tri-lingual things we have to deal with. I'm tired of being told that I need to learn Spanish because English isn't going to be spoken in my area in 10 years. I'm really tired of feeling like an outsider in my hometown because the shops, personnel, and merchandise all cater to languages I don't understand.