Posted on 06/13/2006 3:29:15 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
'I believe that the second largest illegal immigrant group in the US.... is the Irish.'
It's a good job us English made the Irish speak English a few hundred years ago or you'd now all be complaining about the damned Irish not being assimilated and speaking Gaelic everywhere! :D
My point is that, if we keep allowing this discussion to concentrate just on Mexicans, we will end up with a solution that only solves half of the problem. So, then I guess we will have to put up with more outrage and hand-wringing.
I agree, We forget that a large number of illegals are Europeans on Expired visas.
In Paraguay, Guarani is an official language alongside Spanish, and may be more widely spoken than Spanish.
What I fret about are the sex slave and indentured servant smuggling operations I see. We have a bunch of people here who have fled indochinese communists, for instance.
Would you happen to know how to put tildas over letters using the html thing?
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The whole language issue is a tempest in a teapot. My great grandmother lived in this country for fourty years without learning English. I can't think of ANY group in this country where the second generation prefers their parents language to English.
America is a Cyborg. We WILL assimilate your children.
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