HB 1238 - The Illegal Immigration Fee Act

[rickgiblin]

im sorry, but i havent read all of your post... i only read parts and such, but i think that if you want to come to america, you gotta learn the language. i know that my ancestors were not from here but from overseas, but the adapted and learned the lauquage , tradition, and everything to do with america... i think it is unacceptable that we americans should have to learn a different way of life and speaking a different lanquage just to be able to speak with some illagle people. no im not racest or anything like that just before yall say that, but i think its wrong that we gotta adapt to them... why cant they learn OUR "English" lanquage and then be welcomed. yes, there is alot of great illeagle immarants that are over her, but the ones that reall give them a bad name to me is the ones that harass and virbiraly assult me and my girlfriend. sorry, that was off topic, back on... but to me, if you wanna come over here, atleast learn our way of life and lanquage. i was listining to the radio the past few days, and theres almost more spanish radio stations then all r&b, rap, country... basically english speaking stations. if the immigrants keep comming, i think that the usa is gonna become overrun by illeagles. but i might be out of line but thats just where i stand with it. i say that we strengthen the borders and teach the ones that are here already how to conversate with americans in english. well... im just rambilin now. o and sorry about the spelling, that was never my best subject in school

[Neke01]

^^ Hey man, first of all I want to say that this is not a personal attack. Now, here it goes, IF you're still writing like that, and you've gone to school here, how can you expect inmigrants to know english inmediately? Should we have "Training Centers" to hold them while they learn english before we release them into the country?

I'm just saying, most of these inmigrants spend very long hours working to support their families, and even then, there are hundreds of classes all around Atlanta for them to learn english, and they are. Now, we can't expect them to know english perfectly, but, I also don't agree with them forming their own groups and not trying to integrate into society at all. We just have to understand that what we are going through now has been felt by all inmigrant groups that have come to this country. We all know of the Irish, Italian, Polish, Chinese neighborhoods in so many of our cities accross the country. They chose to stick together to support themselves, but eventually they learned the language, acculturized themselves and eventually became a part of the fabric of this country.

That's about the outcome that we can expect from the current groups of inmigrants, they just need time and two or three generations from now, they'll be the ones saying "hey we're americans, we learned the language, etc.. so why are all these (insert other country here) coming here and not speaking english..."