Amend the Constitution?
No tirades, please, just responsible answers.
Answer:
More than 20 states already have English as their official language, but it doesn't seem to help.
Also, the ability to read and write English is already a pre-requisite for citizenship.
The laws we really need are already on the books. These are the laws that make it a crime to hire illegal aliens. Enforce these and you'll reduce the invasion to a trickle overnight.
Anything will help
No. No more additions or amending the Constitution is needed. Our Government is already bent to the breaking point with the over reaching BS of the Patriot Act.
One more thing for the United States government to deal with will finish us off for good.
Declaring a national language???
what is this? Germany in the 1930s?
That would be so wonderful. If everyone spoke the same national language by law, then everybody would understand eachother, there wouldn't be anymore need for "push 2 for Spanish" cr@p!
no, people are largely ignorant of american history. Before the Mexicans there were the Chinese, Irish, Polish a dozen other eastern europeans. The list is very long. In the gold camps in California and Alaska there were at least 7 languages spoken all the time!! The notion that cheap labor is destroying america is just ignorance. This country was built on cheap labor.
English.......of course...
Its only common sense.
Yes. If I moved to Mexico, I would be expected to speak Spanish. Right?
Yes. It would also help Americans feel like their country is not being terrorized by Central America. If they come here then they should expect to have to adopt our customs, INCLUDING THE LANGUAGE. It is very disrespectful to hear someone who has lived in the US for over 5 years still unable to speak English...I have actually seen 3 generations within the same house where only ONE of them were able to speak any English.
I don't want to learn THEIR language. If I want to learn another language, then it will be up to ME, not because I was forced by people sympathizing with invaders into my country!
this is in the Constitution. the author of the fourteenth amendment,Rep, john A. Bingham(oh), responded to the above declaration as follows. "I find no fault with the introductory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born with in the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of our constituting itself, a natural born citizen".
what does this tell me? it tells me that our official language is English. and any person who can not give up their loyalty to their old country are not citizens and their anchor baby's are not citizens of this country.
"Unless prohibited or granted by law, the Rights and Priviledges contained in the Constitution shall only apply to US Citizens or lawfully present aliens."
That will solve the problems and prevent future problems!
give it a little thought first. What is a national language? What would be the significance of declaring english or spanish the national language. Would it prohibit erecting a sign saying "new entering El Paso?" How about Detroit (the straights in French). Or Des Moins? If a defendant in court announced that he was pleading "cupable" would it prohibit the judge from accepting the plea and require a jury trial? Should we simply ignore the millions of foreign tourists on the theory that it would help permanent immigrants? If you cannot describe the constitutional amendment, or give its precise wording, or describe the effects, then your discussion is based in ignorance and adds nothing to any debate.
I think that's a good idea.
Sure, why not? I thought you were talking about amending the constitution to stop automatic citizenship to kids born to illegal aliens. Then I clicked on your question. Ok, so English is declared the national language, now what? The classroom sizes in public schools will quadruple, and they will STILL BE HERE, reading and speaking in English, but also trekking across the border by the millions, and destroying the American economy.
Well, at least they will be fluent in English, while waving their Mexican flags.
Its a very good question. The biggest obstacle I see is that America does not have one ethnicity or even a ruling ethnicity anymore.
What we should really do is limit the intake of all immigration, both legal and illegal. America, as you know, used to have a quota system in place and it worked fine. We have nothing now, and immigration laws that we have are not enforced. What we NEED is a new president who will follow the will of the people and the law of the land.
The country would also disperse immigrants to various parts of the country so they would assimilate better. Now, we have big cities,and big regions of cities where you wont hear english spoken.
The question should be: how do we fix this mess?
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