What about this?

TheLizard

If they choose to live in this country and want to live here then yes, they should have to speak english. I don't believe that they should have to pay any fines... income taxes are more than enough. But I do feel that if they want to live here they have NO RIGHT to refuse to learn the language. If they can't learn the language... take them to the middle of the pacific and drop their asses in the water.

FoxAmericaLover!

No, I don't think that people should be fined for not speaking English. However, I think that English should be the primary language taught in our school systems and that we should not cater to those that refuse to use English in our State and government schools. People should have the courtesy to speak English in our establishments and quit trying to make Americans speak their language. If they are illegal, they don't deserve any more special treatment.

PANCHA

You don't seem to speak English too well.
And they do pay taxes.
If given amnesty I think they shoud have to pay what it costs legal immigrants to apply for citizenship.Fair?Yes,I think so.

Tammy H

No. They should be able to live as freely in America as we do.

Answers R Me

Depends on citizenship. If they want to become citizens then of course they need to learn to speak English.

steveed

There should be no fine, just the normal taxes. It would probably be better for any foreigners to learn to speak English. It opens up more opportunities for employment.

Victoria R

I take you wish for the States to be an Anglo speaking country while not respecting other people's mother tongues but wishing for everyone to respect the "English".
That'a great approach to life......RIGHT.
No wonder the world is going to hell with America at the reigns. America was not "founded" or "discovered". America, before the colonists, was not an English speaking country. People lived here before the colonists came....they are called Native/Aboriginal people.
How easy you seem to forget that the land you are living on was stolen from a people that go through a slow genocide everyday.

Mexicans have as much right to speak spanish where ever they wish. Just as you wish to speak english where ever you like. But you don't like people not speaking english around you cause your ignorant mind can't handle it so you wish them to bend so you don't have to.
Cry me a f*cking river. You have alot of adacity and nerve.
All you are doing is spreading colonization and eradicating diversity.
Immigrants are not the problem. Non-english people aren't the problem.
The problem is people like yourself with your head up your azz.
Your Eurocentric thinking is the problem, not the solution.

Andrew

No, I don't think we should apply Jim Crow type laws to any other group.

coolchiclol

I do not think its fair. Other countries dont make us americans pay a fine to go in that country.

Smudgeward

Better still, fine Americans for each language they can't speak and give the money to the poor.

hayleylov

then forget our laws and sell American citizenships no thanks!! i think we should enforce our laws fine companies that hire them and most of all bring mexico up on charges for doing this to their people and us or it will repeat itself.

billhill1066

What is your definition of "to speak English" ? Would you eliminate all people who can't talk? Would people who must rely on sign language (it's universal, not English) have to leave the country?.... What proficiency in English would you require? College level ? (and thereby eliminate half our population)...third grade level? (o k now everybody stays). I'm a fifth generation Californian and I just don't understand why so many people are so concerned with this issue. I know plenty of "upstanding citizens", who make a good living, pay their taxes, etc., who do not have a good grasp of the English language. They do more than "get by". What's the problem?

Sashie

What we need is an official national language .. all countries I know of have their own language ... consequently, if you want a job, you speak English ... in school, you speak English, when communicating to the authorites, you do so in English ... and you'd soon find how amazingly quickly people would learn it ... at the moment, there really is no incentive for them to learn, since they get schooling in Spanish, and forms printed in Spanish, and jobs for Spanish speakers ... no English speakers need apply ... as for fines for staying in the U.S., are you referring to illegal aliens? Because they should be deported!! As far as I know, the ones who are here legally do pay taxes ... or so it's to be hoped anyway ... :)

Wolfpacker

Yes, I do! Give them 6 months - a year to learn language

something'srotten

No, but anyone past 2nd generation Americans who can't speak English should be exempt from minimum wage laws and ineligible for public assistance.

DAR

We subsidize poor people's education and health care even if they pay all taxes. That is why we limit the number of poor people who can come. There are millions of children of illegal immigrants just in the overcrowded, underfunded schools in Southern California alone. We pay for their education even if their parents pay all taxes, because poor pay less than those who are not poor. Meanwhile our own children can't get a decent and safe education. That is not fair.

Your solution doesn't address that.

truthteller

yes, that would be a good start.....

electricpole

All non-English speaking immigrants should learn it under penalty of law. Who cares what you speak in your home or on the street corner. You need English to conduct your everyday affairs.
Paying the fine to stay: Yes, only because the problem is so large, and we turned a blind eye for so long.
Pay taxes: Yes, just like very one else.

Bradly S

If we were to emigrate to their country, we would be required to learn their language, and pay taxes to their government... they should play by different rules because?

poodie

this is our fault, we have to be politically correct. we are not allowed to make Mexicans speak English. we only make people from other countries that come here legally speak English. we are the ones who started printing English papers in Spanish as well. do you think the citizens of America said we wanted that, no, the government just took it upon themselves. living in Arizona, we voted for English to be the official language, and the government said "WE didn't understand what we voted for". we knew exactly what we voted for. the government wants their votes so they will continue to pretend that they are working on this when really their not. since the Mexican population has made the white people the minority and many cities already, who do you think they are going to side with?

Ronald G

This is actually the law in most European countries where Americans are given temporary work status. I would be in favor of the mandatory classes in order to maintain your status but fining people will not solve anything.

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