Posted on 11/22/2007 11:16:34 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Only American citizens can vote in our elections...
American citizens speak English...
PING
They won’t need us at all before long, except to pay the bills!
It makes a difference if it is a “block vote”—all of them voting in lockstep for the same candidates. In 2004 Bush got 45 percent of the Hispanic vote, Kerry 55 percent. That’s not a block.
I am searching the constution for this, but cannot find it. Would you mind pointing it out. Or a corresponding law?
Well of course, and some American citizens are bilingual and others only speak Spanish, Polish, Greek, Vietnamize or a Chinese dialect. We have the right to vote because we are citizens not because of the language we speak.
The Hispanic vote will be minimized if all states require official photo I.D. cards to vote. Then the citizens of this country will not be disenfranchised!
This is true. However, since 1946, with some exceptions, it has been a legal requirement that one demonstrate mastery of English to become an American citizen. This requirement does not apply to everyone, but, for the most part, American citizens who cannot speak English have probably gained their citizenship through fraud.
What do I mean by fraud? I have met people who told me that, in the 90s, they demonstrated their “proficiency” in English with the help of an interpreter. That’s fraud.
So, while it’s true that many American citizens do not speak English, MOST were required to speak English in order to become citizens. Those who were legally required to learn English, did not, and still became citizens, may have gained their US citizenship under false pretenses.
Just a thought.
Babies don't speak english and they are citizens if born in the US.
However, my point was that there are American citizens that are born in the States and grow-up not speaking English.
This is probably true... However, IMHO, parents of children who do not grow up learning English should be charged with child abuse and their children taken away.
But would you also revoke these people’s right to vote?
I’ll bet the percentage of legal hispanic voters here is much lower.
yeah right.....another Tennessee open border naive idjit
we’ve revoked folks for less
but actually I dismiss your premise to begin with
no kids born here and being citizens and who have lived here and been educated here would not speak Ingles by aged 18.
and those born here are very unlikely to have then been yanked away till their 18th birthday to an non-English speaking environment...those would be an exception to the exception to the exception to the rule and hardly should dictate policy.....you already know I don’t think exceptions make rules
my daughters are dual Brasilian and they did not speak Ingles in Miami where we lived till later around aged 5 in kindergarten
in Texas and in the SW you will sometimes run into a Hispanic woman who was born in the States, grew-up in a Spanish speaking household and neighborhood works as a cleaning woman and does not speak English.
I have been in parts or Chicago and Brooklyn and met adults that were born in the states and hardly know English.
And then there is South Louisiana where I have no idea what they speak it is not English.
As for me, I was born in Colombia and spoke primarily Spanish until I moved to the states and entered school. My parents were US and spoke English but my siblings, maid, nanny, driver, friends and schoolmates spoke Spanish.
When I entered school in the states, I was an oddity a white boy that did not know English.
I lived in Miami for almost 8 years....I never knew any native born kids who did not speak English after beginning school age...since English is sorta unavoidable in school...even in Myamuh
I know Colombia well...too well....lol
many years there off and on....a lifetime ago.
Personally, and I am probably wrong, but I think some of these articles are printed to gin the hispanics up to get out and vote also. Of course they are increasing in numbers, thanks in part to the illegals, and yes, like you said, they have or should have to be citizens to vote. But the media is trying to play its’ part to build them up go vote too..
I wonder what would happen if there was an article tagged “Resurgence of White Vote Dominates Elections”? I’m thinking , it would start a war with the Jackson/Chavez types.
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