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Here in southwest Washington state it's Russian. A lot of them live here and there's enough of a community that even their children born here don't bother to learn English.
But technology is making this easier. Was at an eye appointment and they were managing to talk to a client in Russian using Google translate on their phone.
Even if English were our official language, that wouldn't stop private companies from printing labels or instructions in multiple languages. Are we going to make it illegal to speak anything except English in the US? That would kill the tourism industry.
Only a handful of federal laws mandate the use of languages other than English:
Immigration procedures: interpreters must be available during the physical and mental examination of foreigners seeking entry to the United States – 8 U.S.C. 1224.
Due process: court interpreters must be provided in federal civil and criminal trials that involve parties or witnesses who are not proficient in English – 28 U.S.C. 1827.
Migrant health care: bilingual personnel must be provided in federally funded migrant health centers and alcohol abuse programs that serve a significant non-English-speaking population – 42 U.S.C. 254b(f)(3)(J), 245c, 4577b.
Voting rights: bilingual ballots and voter information must be provided in jurisdictions where speakers of Spanish, Native American, and Asian American languages exceed 5 percent of the population or number more than 10,000 and have below average rates of voter turnout and English proficiency – 42 U.S.C. 1973aa-1a.
Less than 1/2 of one percent of Federal documents are printed in languages other than English.
I was speaking about our state government, and I'm sure those vary.
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When the market disappears (and it IS disappearing) they will stop.
Pretty soon Univision is not going to have an audience. They are already planning to make an English Language network to attract young native born "hispanics" viewers that don't speak Spanish.
Let the free market do it's work. There's no reason to legally enforce language.
How will the market disappear unless we stop illegal immigration from south of our border and stop allotting Spanish speakers the largest quotas for legal immigration into our country?
There are far more Spanish speaking parents who are passing that language onto their kids than the other way around. No one is suggesting we force English on anyone just because we make English our official language. There never will be a law where other languages are not permitted to be spoken.
Here in southwest Washington state it's Russian. A lot of them live here and there's enough of a community that even their children born here don't bother to learn English.
True, I started speaking Spanish first, but when I started school I started learning English along with my cousins. Sad thing is that my dad joined the Military, we left L.A. for a while and I lost 50% of my Spanish lol. Sometimes there's miscommunications with my grandmother when I see her lol.
Why not? There are stores, churches, etc that operate primarily in Russian here. A lot of the jobs more typically done by Spanish speaking immigrants in other parts of the country are done by Russian speaking immigrants here.
This is based on census data, however, and illegals are very reluctant to fill out the census.
I don't think this is the most accurate information. But given that no English is spoken in a high number of households and 10 - 21% of children do not speak English when starting school in 8 states, it begs the question of how interested they are in learning English. They're not all new arrivals.
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