As our "leaders" look at the issue of immigration reform should they look at adopting a requirement that would require some proficiency of the English language before citizenship is granted?

you said that America should have 2 languages like Canada does. Try buying something and look at the instruction manual. It is a thick book with about 2-4 pages in English. The rest of the book is in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Tiwan, Pourtigese, Hindu (of all things) and maybe a couple of other languages

41.3 million
The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2004, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest race or ethnic minority.
Hispanics constituted 14 percent of the nation’s total population. (This estimate does not include the 3.9 million residents of Puerto Rico.)

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Of every two people added to the nation’s population between July 1, 2003, and July 1, 2004, were Hispanic.

102.6 million
The projected Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2050.
According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 24 percent of the nation’s total population on that date.

The States of California and Texas are bordering on having over 50% Hispanic populations. Tell me this is not changing the face of our nation.

The fear is warranted. The cost of supporting this wave of immigration is devastating to states like Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. Let's not even get started on the whole bilingual education discussion and the costs in both dollars and resources that these cost.

We are not afraid of immigrants so much as we fear the cost and societal impact of immigrants.

Granted, as a country, we do not always spend our money wisely (see Iraq War). However the tremendous financial and resource burden this wave of illigal immigrants is puttting upon our local, state and federal governments is enormous. We cannot afford this.

It amazes me that these illegal immigrants come to this country and have the gall to march on our cities and demand that our government do something for them. Perhaps had they had the gall and the drive to make such demands of their own government they would not have had to leave their own countries.

This is not paranoia nor racism. If anything it may ethnocentrism. I happen to value the American way of life, our values and morals, our traditional work ethic, and I think it would truly be a shame to lose them. We are at risk of losing them now. Values and morals evolve over the course of time to fit the needs of the evolving society. However, we risk now not a slow evolution but a drastic shaping that reflects a rapidly changing society. This needs to be slowed down before we lose so much of what has made us the greatest nation the world has ever known.

It would seem obvious to me that some minimal ability in the national language should be required before we grant citizenship. This will at least ensure that the new citizen would be able to be productive in the work place, seek assistance and be able to be productive in society.

These protests should have never been allowed, they have no rights. One would have thought that by the second one, someone could have said, hey, you know what; they are all in one place. INS should be communicated of the details of such event wouldn’t you agree? Why not there?
Don’t give me your unconstitutional bs, because again, these people have no rights. Yet, I wonder, why we are allowing them to display such arrogance.
This one is really puzzling me…