God forbid people crawl out of their little xenophobic shell and learn to speak something besides English.

Personally I'd love to speak another language. I can't and my brain just doesn't seem to be wired to learn. I've taken French, Spanish, and German, in middle school, high school, and college respectively. I just don't get languages. Teach me math or give me a schematic or instructions, and there's very little I can't take apart, put together, or figure out. Just don't ask me to do it in any language besides English. I'm sure there are quite a few people who come to this country who have my exact problem.

And to think that people come to this country and don't try to learn the language is a bit ignorant IMO. My wife is third generation Mexican American. She speaks little to no Spanish while her older siblings speak more/better Spanish the older they are. Both her parents speak both Spanish, and English and have even acted as translators for court cases in their small town. But to each other they speak primarily Spanish. I really don't understand why so many people have a problem with that. I go to their house and they speak Spanish to each other. It's their house. They're also getting old and if they need to call the Social Security, Medicare, or what ever and they can have a Spanish option I think that's great. Even though they speak English it's a hell of a lot easier on them to hear Spanish.

Get over it. Every so often we get a rush or immigrants who noone thinks will ever adapt and become "real Americans". People have tried in the past to keep out about every other group of people on the assumption they wouldn't assimilate, and every group has proved the xenophobes wrong. So why wouldn't the hispanics be any different?