84 years old and can’t speak any English except for “ID”? Send him back. He doesn’t belong here (but I will be you he’s been collecting Social Security for a long time).
You’d win that bet. You didn’t see the part where he has lived here for almost FIFTY YEARS.
Bonus outrage: he speaks Spanish because he came here via Cuba, and obviously always got along quite nicely with it, thank you very much.
In my neighborhood in Chicago, many of the Ukrainian and Polish elderly speak little, if any, English. Most were sponsored by their children, who left the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War and were accepted as refugees from Communism. Eventually, these immigrants became citizens and were allowed to sponsor their parents and relatives. Because many areas of Chicago are segregated by culture, these elderly hardly need to use English.
Historically, Lincoln Park, now an enclave of wealthy Yuppies, was once a German neighborhood where you could not buy meat unless you spoke German.
seems he worked in a restaurant or maybe owned a restaurant, so he has likely paid into the Social Security that he is now likely collecting... i am assuming the government didn’t give a rats a$$ what language he spoke when it collected his taxes... and yes, i do think he should be speaking English by now... actually, i do not believe that he does not know English... he knows two languages and has been here for 50 years... i bet he knows it better than he is letting on...
Then refund him all the taxes he's paid via his business..............Fair enough?
Your comment is more evidence of the bigotry that is both taking over this site and being ignored...............
What right was violated? The right to have cops speak Mandarin?
“84 years old and can’t speak any English except for “ID”? Send him back. “
So it’s ok just to beat him and handcuff him? What if the issue was just a bad hearing aid battery? Beat that one as well?
Pigs have no Right to abuse a citizen or a human or a dog.......gonna’ get pigs killed sooner or later.
Sorry, but that's a really thoughtless, ignorant statement.
He's here legally, ran a very successful business for decades, and, no doubt paid his share of taxes to earn the Social Security. Older people don't learn foreign languages easily.
How about commenting on the cops' behavior? Or is this just beat-up-on-furriners-day?
“84 years old and can’t speak any English except for “ID”? Send him back. He doesn’t belong here (but I will be you he’s been collecting Social Security for a long time).”
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-I dated a Chinese girl when I was young. Her father, who immigrated from China and married a Chinese American woman, built up a profitable restaurant and bar, but hardly spoke any English, EVER. All of his kids spoke English, and all the kids went to college.
The victim, Mr. Wong, has a son who is an attorney. You’re pretty ignorant of Chinese culture, if you want to try to criminalize this old guy for not speaking English. Darius Bane has both you and Wiggins pegged, in post # 25.