Re: Will English Survive Immigrant Flood?
- From: Jean Smith <gotermite@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:18:14 -0500
In article <4l3cejF2shvU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sordo<sordo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Will English Survive Immigrant Flood?
Posted Aug 21, 2006
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16572
When the Census Bureau released its American Community Survey analyzing
demographic trends among U.S. households last week, the Washington Post
and the New York Times, the flagship newspapers of the Eastern liberal
establishment, celebrated the news with front-page stories.
The Census Bureau?s data confirmed that the U.S. continues to be
inundated by a flood of immigrants both legal and illegal (a distinction
the bureau does not even make).
One Nation
The top-of-the-page headline in the Post said: ?Area Immigrants Top 1
Million.? The Times? front-page headline read: ?New Data Shows
Immigrants? Growth and Reach.?
?Last year, one in five people in metropolitan Washington were
immigrants, compared with one in six in 2000,? said the Post.
The Washington, D.C., area, the Post noted, is now one of eight U.S.
metropolitan areas?with New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, San
Francisco, Houston and Dallas?that have at least 1 million immigrants.
?[T]he rise in the immigrant household population since 2000 seems to
indicate that the blazing pace of immigration seen throughout the 1990s
has continued into the first half of this decade,? the New York Times
reported.
Out in the Midwest, the Chicago Tribune focused attention on a different
aspect of the Census Bureau?s survey: English is declining as the common
language of the United States. Spanish is on the rise.
The Tribune?s front-page story, which reported that 30% of Chicago-area
residents do not speak English at home, was headlined: ?In more area
homes, it?s Español.?
?For the Barraza family, life is conducted mostly in Spanish,? the
Tribune reported. ?The Elgin (Ill.) couple works together, cleaning
newly built homes in the Aurora area, where they take orders from a
Spanish-speaking supervisor. When they get home, they speak with their
two school-age sons in Spanish. It is a situation that is increasingly
common, as Spanish becomes the primary language spoken in a growing
number of homes across the metropolitan area, according to new census
data ?
?With an influx of Spanish-language radio stations, cable channels and
newspapers,? the Tribune reported, ?marketers see a huge opportunity to
tap into the fastest-growing segment of the population and one that
accounts for virtually all of the area?s population gains.?
Deep in its own story on the Census survey, the Post reported that in
Prince William County in suburban Virginia, enrollment in the local
public school program for students who do not speak English has
increased 274% in five years. Eighty percent of the students enrolled in
the program speak Spanish.
Additional survey data published on the Census Bureau?s website reveal
that the Chicago area and Prince William County are hardly alone in
having large and growing populations of non-English-speaking?and
especially Spanish speaking?residents.
In California, the nation?s largest state, 42.3% of the people do not
speak English at home. More than 28% speak Spanish instead. One in five
Californians told the Census Bureau they speak English ?less than very
well.?
Within California, the foreign-language speakers tend to be concentrated
in certain communities. In the City of Los Angeles, 60.8% of the people
do not speak English at home. More than 44% speak Spanish instead. And
31.3% say they speak English ?less than very well.?
In the Orange County city of Santa Ana, 84.7% do not speak English at
home. More than 75% speak Spanish instead, and 50.8% say they speak
English ?less than very well.?
On the other side of the continent, in Miami, Fla, 78.9% do not speak
English at home, 69.8% speak Spanish instead, and 46.7% say they speak
English ?less than very well.?
Up North in Passaic, N.J., 72.7% of the people do not speak English at
home, 62.9% speak Spanish instead, and 45.4% say they speak English
?less than very well.?
America is headed toward a cultural catastrophe. Chronic non-enforcement
of our immigration laws together with a multicultural ideology that
seeks to make it easier for immigrants?and their children and
grandchildren?to retain their native cultures, could strip this nation
of a unifying, common language.
There is nothing, of course, wrong with the Spanish language, or with
immigrants? coming to the United States from Spanish-speaking regions of
the world. But there is something profoundly wrong with a political
elite that has been so lax in enforcing our borders that it may have
established within the U.S. foreign-language enclaves large enough and
concentrated enough to successfully resist assimilation.
The Census Bureau?s new American Community Survey demonstrates that if
the melting pot is not broken beyond repair, it is severely cracked and
bubbling over.
In the coming election cycles, enforcing U.S. borders and immigration
laws and promoting public policies that resist the primacy of
multiculturalism should be at the center of the national debate.
Percent of People Five Years and Over Who Speak a Language Other Than
English at Home
1. California: 42.3%
2. New Mexico: 36.1%
3. Texas: 33.6%
4. New York: 28.2%
5. Arizona: 27.4%
5. New Jersey: 27.4%
7. Nevada: 26.2%
8. Florida: 25.4%
9. Hawaii: 24%
10. Illinois: 21.5%
Copyright © 2006 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.
Well, that does it. We need social services to help folks integrate into
society, like the Polish Falcons.
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