Disappointed for Obama comments
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Oscar Arrieta
Published: July 29, 2008
Comments from Obama asking American parents to not worry about immigrants not speaking English but imploring them to make sure their kids learn Spanish, are offensive. Immigrants from Latin
America need to learn English if they want to succeed in this country and not be second- class citizens.
It is good for Americans to learn Spanish because that is the language of the nannies, the cooks, the gardeners, the laborers and in addition, they can communicate with the second-class citizen who
can not speak English.
Among immigrants, Asians, African, eastern Europeans and middle Easterners, the Hispanic group are less proficient in English and because of that, they do jobs that Americans don’t do.
No other group than Latinos are “blessed” to have the “help” from government and business, providing driving license tests, election ballots and Spanish- speaking sales person.
This is not good for the Latino community because it perpetuates their status as second-class citizens.
If Obama wants to help the Latino community, he should provide more affordable or free education in order to learn English and worry for immigrants who do not speak English so they integrate to the
American society not like a second-class citizen.
OSCAR ARRIETA
Lake Ridge
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Posted by ( anonmom ) on July 30, 2008 at 12:02 pm
What about immigrants from other countries? Do we have to provide “free” language training for them, too? How many different languages would we need to cover to be fair?
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Posted by ( T Dawg ) on July 30, 2008 at 9:26 am
Another request to enlarge the welfare community and build generations of people who are unable to do for themselves. Gimme, gimme, gimme ... free this, free that ... waaaa waaaa waaaa ... disgusting.
The first thing the illegal aliens from south of the border need to do is return to their home country and work to improve it. They can apply for authorized visa and other documentation and then re-enter this country. Once on this side of the border, they can obey our laws. Then while working as a documented immigrant, they can pay for night school classes in English. If they so choose, they can study and work toward American citizenship at which time they will be granted all rights and privileges afforded American citizens.
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