On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:17:38 GMT, blake murphy >
wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:08:31 -0500, notbob > wrote:
>
>>On 2007-06-16, blake murphy > wrote:
>>
>>> reading the crap you post. where do you think?
>>
>>If I knew, I wouldn't have asked. I think you confuse my feelings
>>about the illegal immigration problems this country is facing with
>>ethnic and cultural issues. Not the same.
>>
>>nb
>
>how else am i to take this?
>
>>> says...
>>> > Nevermind. It doesn't matter. It's too late anyway. You all will be
>>> > speaking Mexican in a few decades and I'll be long gone. Have fun.
>
>or do you think it would be o.k. if everyone speaks 'mexican' as long
>as all the immigrants are legal? it sounds like you fear the brown
>hordes.
>
>if i'm wrong, my apologies. but you must admit it would be an easy
>mistake to make.
>
Tagging on to your post.... Assimilation is the real issue.

Keeping the their home language is not the problem, it's only a
symptom - not learning the language of their host country is what
isolates them and keeps them on the bottom rung of the earning ladder
Any immigrant (legal or not) who is a forward thinker understands
that.

IMO: there are three issues surrounding not learning the language of
their the host country:

1. It is beneficial to employers to keep their illegal workers as
ignorant as possible (because they don't speak the host language) so
they can keep wages low and working conditions don't have to comply
with the law because workers don't know their rights.
2. It is hard for illegals to take advantage of free English classes
because they don't want to expose themselves even though they will not
be reported and deported.
3. Illegals have limited opportunities to practice the language even
if they do take ESL classes because they don't want to expose
themselves.

We need to reintroduce guest worker programs for farm workers.

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