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

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Spanish is the official language for much of Tulsa. Here it's more convenient for an English speaker to pick up Spanish than it is for a Mexican to pick up English.

I agree with your statement and this is what worries me. Apologists for illegals always seem to raise the point that the US was built by immigrants, etc. And yes the first generation may not have spoke English and they lived in some isolation - Little (insert nation here) in the large cities, BUT future generations had to learn English and assimilate to some degree in order to live the American Dream and their parents pushed them to do that. Now, it seems some are trying to say its OK not to assimilate. So then you'll have pockets where you have to speak Spanish or Vietnamese or Hatian, etc. That is not what built this country.

Oh, the scale is also completely different from the past. I saw a documentary recently talking about how some 5 million Irish came here between 1600 and the 1920s (or something like that). 5 million is nothing compared to the waves we see today.

You can assimilate and still maintain your heritage. Ugh, this topic is giving me agida!