[squirt-gun]

Whether first generation immigrants have a hard time assimilating, they for sure may have a very hard time learning to speak English, even if they already read it and write it.

So very true.

But the problem is that first generation immigrants of the Spanish variety have largely negelected to direct their children to learn English as their primary language.

Most people understand that new arrivals of any variety have a difficult time learning Enlish.....Its the history of our country But the newly arrived Mexicans and other Spanish speaking peoples flooding America now are the very first major group of immigrants to work diligently to insure that their children do not make English their prime language.

That is an undeniable fact and a terrible pity for their own children.

[muawiyah]

We have over 65,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras in the area ~ very few Mexicans in fact, and are now receiving Peruvians and Argentines.

The kids here are speaking English. Otherwise, they'll have to learn Gujarat, Korean or Urdu to discuss business with their non-Spanish speaking bosses!