Before you say "English", please make sure you can back up your answer with a source.  I am so tired of people whining about immigrants...
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Official language(s) None at federal level;\nEnglish de facto
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well dont let that affect you.i dont.  me, i am south african, highly educated and yet apparently from a 3rd world country. when i look around at uk, london - a 1st world country, i see the young people, clueless, older closed minded folks with blinkers on, and i think, was i eager to come and see this. like you, i didnt fall short of anything back home, in fact my standard of living was 10 times better than london, in terms of space, parking, less tax etc. but i came here to travel, explore , and my skills were needed here... and better yet, a british company came to my country , to recruit me, i didnt even ask to come here, i just sat back and got brought.... so i suggest to those who think foreigners are idiots, just because their accent is different , to think again - cos english is not the universal language in the world.... and british and americans are the people most likely to only know one language, while us foreigners usually know at least 2 languages.
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Why can't you people just speak english instead of that stupid computer thug crap........you would make a lot more sense
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I agree. I guess we should ALL LEARN SPANISH and forget American History.  Who needs English, we should BEND OVER BACKWARDS FOR LATINO IMMIGRANTS, and IGNORE THE ASIAN IMMIGRANTS WHO BUST THEIR HUMP TRYING TO LEARN ENGLISH. WE SHOULD IGNORE THE HAITIANS WHO COME TO AMERICA AND HAVE TO BUST THEIR HUMP TRYING TO LEARN ENGLISH. WE SHOULD IGNORE THE AFRICAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS WHO COME TO AMERICA AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE. WHY ARE SOME AMERICANS SO STUPID? WHY DO SOME AMERICANS GET OFFENDED WHEN YOU TELL THEM THAT HISPANIC IMMIGRANTS NEED TO LEARN HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH. WHY SHOULD WE BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO HAVE THINGS IN SPANISH IF WE DON'T ACCOMODATE OTHER IMMIGRANTS THAT HAVE COME IN THE PAST AND ARE CURRENTLY COMING FROM OTHER PLACES LEGALLY. TO ME THAT IS VERY, VERY RACIST. WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT SPANISH? OUR FOUNDING FATHERS SPOKE ENGLISH, OUR CONSTITUTION IS IN ENGLISH, OUR STATE LEGISLATURES AND CONGRESS IS HELD IN ENGLISH, THE PRESIDENT GIVES HIS SPEECHES IN ENGLISH,ETC. IF YOU COME TO AMERICA, LEARN ENGLISH. This directed at TishaTiger,lynda_vosbein,PANCHA,kid_rigo92, and wongmoxy. As for those that said that we should learn a native tongue is missing the point. Why don't the Mexican government speak Nauhautl(the Aztec language)? Why don't Spanish-speaking countries learn the native language of the indigeous people? Because the Spaniards and Spanish-speaking governments see these languages as being INFERIOR to Spanish AND BECAUSE SPANISH IS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THESE COUNTRIES.IF YOU EXPECT TO IMMIGRATE TO A SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY LIKE ARGENTINA OR CHILE, IMMIGRANTS ARE EXPECTED TO SPEAK SPANISH. THAT IS FOR ALL OF THE GERMANS, ITALIAN, FRENCH AND EVEN IRISH IMMIGRANTS TO THOSE COUNTRIES. SPANISH COUNTRIES DO NOT HAVE FORMS IN ITALIAN FOR THE ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS, FRENCH FOR THE FRENCH IMMIGRANTS, GERMAN FOR THE GERMAN IMMIGRANTS, OR EVEN GAELIC FOR THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS. IT IS EXPECTED THAT IF THEY WANT TO IMMIGRATE TO THESE SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES, THAT THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, SPANISH. WHY SHOULD THE UNITED STATES HOLD OURSELVES TO A DIFFERENT STANDARD THAT SOME OF THESE SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES HOLD THEIR IMMIGRANTS TO?AGAIN, I think that's racist. \n  I know I am rambling on, but the point is if you come to America, learn English, don't expect us to learn your language if the SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES WON'T DO IT FOR THE NATIVES OR FOR THEIR IMMIGRANTS. It is expected that if you want to immigrate that you should learn the language. The US should be no exception to that rule.\n\n I AGREE WITH YOU 100%.
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I think what bothers me the most is when ppl say we are a country of immigrants... they leave one vital word in that sentence:\n\nWe are a country of LEGAL immigrants. Those with ancestors that migrated here were LEGAL.\n\nI once watched an old black and white taping of some in NYC that had just got off some ships. They had to pass extremely difficult physicals and examinations... meaning our ancestors had to be LEGAL and pass tests to be here.
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It angers me that law abiding immigrants are being demonized the way they are.  They arent the problem the problem is and has been corporate outsourcing of jobs overseas.  The only problem I have is that because there are few incentives for these hard working immigrants to spread out they're not being thrown into learning english as well as years past.  By all means, come here, work hard, obey the law, spend money, and give your family a better life.
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No way Dude! The immigration issue is a firestorm right now! You cannot communicate well, you will be back on your way in no time!
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"You whine about how you can't do anything, because you are afraid to risk your own lives...So you run away from your problems."\n\n\nSo, if you think this about the immigrants that have come to the US, that includes the first ones from England, that includes your ancestors.\n\nEdit: And how do you know that every illegal immigrant has that reasons? Is it that difficult to think that some may have the same reasons that your ancestors?
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Go away this is the immigration category not your \nplatform to preach.
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I don't care.\n\nThe problem with the 'English only' and anti-immigrant sentiment goes against everything this country is SUPPOSED to stand for.\n\nI was under the impression that America embraced diversity. I was under the impression that diversity is part of what made America so great.\n\nYet we have this group of people, that forget that they or their ancestors were too once immigrants. Unless of course they are part of the native peoples of this land that were slaughtered and forced to assimilate into the 'foreign' invaders culture. ...But anyway...It is worrisome to me that tax dollars are being spent on blatant bull s h i t!!!\n\nFirst the President wants the national anthem, which may I remind people was written by a drunken Briton, to be sang in English....I'm curious to know exactly HOW MANY AMERICANS KNOW ALL THE WORDS to the NATIONAL ANTHEM.\n\nNow we have, FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL officials trying to make English the official language.\n\n\nYou know what my response is to that...\n\nbeso mi culo!  kus mijn ezel! beije meu burro! baci il mio asino!!!\n\nKiss my A S S!!!!\n\nGive me back my tax dollars until you can find something legitimate to spend my dollars on.\n\n\n....Ok! I'm done with my rant
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Learn to SPEAK AND TYPE ENGLISH--- and   the us should close the borders to immigrants. I lobby against new immigrants. The USA cannot HOLD ALL of the IMMIGRANTS! Stay home, work on your own home politics!\n\nIN ADDITION\nLOL!\nI am not hateful, or jealous. I am NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN. MY ancestors come from the WEST part of the USA, dating back as far at 1730. AND I speak English, and SALISH! So there. :) YOU guys just dont open your mind to overpopulation.
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Illegal Latino immigrants and their supporters are ignorant as H3LL!!  They are the only nationality in our country here illegally, who protest in our country, fly their country's flags, disrespects our flag, leaders, laws, National Anthem, Citizens, abuse our welfare system, take slave wages for jobs Americans WILL do for a fair wage, cause incomes to plummet, are a drain on our economy, cause hundreds of hospitals to close, glut our ER's for non-emergency illnesses, glut our prisons, and on and on and on. NO! If I knew Spanish I wouldn't speak it now, out of respect for my own language, the language the majority of people here use. English is the unified language even if it isn't the official language. In order to assimilate in this country people need to speak the same language. Other immigrants manage to learn English, why can't they!? They need to go home get civilized then come back the LEGAL way!!
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I think if you live in the US you should know how to speak English.  And when you are out of your home in front of others - like at work, etc, it is rude to speak a different language.
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I am glad to have foreigners in my country because they are cheap labor. How many white men do you know that would work for less than 5 dollars an hour in a field under the scourching sun while crop planes drop insecticides on them while they are picking the fruits and vegetables that we eat that we pay hardly anything for. If there were no immigrants our produce and so many other things that we use and eat daily and take for granted would not be accesible because the costs would be to high. So whoever said that immigrants come and take the white mans jobs, you are full of it. They take the jobs that nobody wants, such as housekeepers, field workers, janitors, and so on, I hope that you get the point. For those that live in the U.S. remember 90% of us are descended from immigrants. Mexico is part of America, they are just South America. they did not have to take a boat to get to the America's, they were already here. If you actually look at the statistics most people that are on welfare are white women, not mexicans. I have met plenty of hispanic immigrants that are in the process of learning  English, believe me people it does not take over night to learn a language. Americans are very ignorant and stupid when it comes to things like this. How many of you actually learned a new language before visiting another country? Some of these immigrants really are here on a short term basis, they are here to make money to take back to their families. Just like any American that works or tries a new investment, all you are trying to do is support your family. Be respectful of other people, remember One Nation Under God, it is not very christian to be so ignorant.......
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I agree with you. I think many of them come here for the exact reasons you stated. I know there are war torn countries and whatever but Britain is only a small island and there are plenty of safe countries in between us and their own country. They come here because they are practically guaranteed a good life and a job, if they feel like working, though they don't have to. I get about £300 a month in tax credits to help me stay at home with my own kids. There are people who have a problem with that when these illegals are coming in and being given brand new houses, some built for them, then they were getting those food voucher thingys but that's not good enough is it, they want the cash so they can go and buy themselves a corner shop and rip us off some more. I am all for the BNP on this one. It's not racist. It's fair. It doesn't happen in other countries. If I went to another country, they wouldn't just hand out free stuff just because I was foreign so why do people think it's racist if you don't want to do that?
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I -somehow- agree with you, I know there´s no official language in the USA but for years English has been the predominant language and it is something that should be kept like that. On the other hand I think the American government should get more involved to preserve English, HOW? Simple teach English to those foreigners who come legally, I know there´s lot of issues now with that matter but lets set them aside for the meanwhile.Here for example there´s lots of ppl who come from sud America Africa and Asia no breaking ground news still Spanish comes second what the guv does here is to teach Swedish to those ppl who come there are schools that are called SFI (svenska for invandrare) Swedish for foreigners the classes and books are for free so there are no excuses for not to go and ppl are shown the benefits of speaking the language, these courses are not for illegal ppl but everybo knows here taking those courses will give em a better job indeed that ´s taken like a lil motivation. About other languages driving lessons and tests can be taken in English and Spanish as well as some university courses (English) .Now a days ppl are lazy to learn but not all I met lots of Mexican/Latin ppl in Miami who would speak English as well as up north in Chicago =).
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i say equality to all english is the official language here all people should be expected to learn it \n \nthe laws should apply to EVERYONE \n\ni should not be responsible for the education or welfare of a criminal  what have they done for my child? \n\nwe should have more minutemen to help eliminate this immigration problem\n\nand free speech should apply to everyone that pays taxes and obeys laws  i couldnt care less about what these illegals have to say especially since they wont bother learning english    \n\nit should be up to mexico to deal with them not us