AMERICA
People 5 Years or Older People 5 Years or Older
Who Speak English Who Speak a Language
Less Than Other Than English
English in the home. In
“Very Well” at Home
Indeed, America may
Miami, the number is 50 be dividing into two
California . . . . . . . . . .20.0% California . . . . . . . . . . 42.6%
percent — most saying countries, with two vastly
they speak Spanish.
Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.7% New Mexico . . . . . . . . 35.7%
different cultures, on a
The origin of today’s
New York . . . . . . . . . . 13.2% Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.9%
virtually inevitable path
immigrants plays a key
Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.9% New York . . . . . . . . . . 28.9%
to separatism, Krikorian
role in such increases,
Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.6% Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.5%
warns. By 2050, His-
according to Krikorian.
Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.0% New Jersey . . . . . . . . . 27.8%
panics by will make up
At the turn of the cen- New Jersey . . . . . . . . . 11.6%
Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.4%
one-third of the popu-
tury, most immigrants to Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.0% Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.1% lation, or 133 million,
the United States were
Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.8% Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.5%
compared with 203 mil-
Italian, Irish, German,
New Mexico . . . . . . . . . 9.7% Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.8%
lion non-Hispanic white
Polish, Russian, and
United States . . . . . . . . 8.7% United States . . . . . . . 19.7%
residents, and Hispanics
Scandinavian.
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau 2007 SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau 2007
will outnumber African-
In order to understand Americans by 2 to 1.
each other, and to communicate with the Americans “The legal immigrant intends to stay and makes a
already here, they were forced to learn English. That’s commitment to assimilate, more so than the illegal
not the case today. immigrant who is here temporarily and plans to go
“Mexicans, Cubans, Guatemalans, and Salvadorans back home,” says Boulet.
all speak Spanish. They don’t have a need to learn A recent Pew Hispanic Center report noted the
English. They can live, work, and do business inside number of illegals entering the United States declined
communities of people who speak the same language from 800,000 per year in 2000-2004 to 500,000 a
they do,” Krikorian says. year in 2005-2008.
The U.S. government is hardly championing English Still, the number of illegal immigrants is at an all-
as the native tongue. time high of about 11.9 million, or about 4 percent of
Since President Clinton signed Executive Order the U.S. population and 30 percent of the foreign-born
13166 on Aug. 11, 2000, federal agencies make it much population. A majority of illegal immigrants — 4 out
easier to avoid learning English by providing federal of 5 — come from Latin America, mainly Mexico, the
services in other languages. center found.
“The government is effectively saying, ‘Don’t bother “We need to turn up the heat on the melting pot,”
to learn English,’” says Jim Boulet Jr., executive direc- Krikorian says. “We need to stop, or dramatically
tor of the nonprofi t lobbying group, English First. “We reduce, immigration. We need to limit bilingual educa-
frankly don’t care what language is spoken in people’s tion, expand English language education, and become
homes. What matters is what language the government more demanding on citizenship tests that new citizens
speaks to all of us. have a real command of English. GES
“If you go to a polling place where there is an “Otherwise, we are looking at the inevitable
TY IMA
American fl ag and the ballot is in English, that sends Balkanization of America.” GET
one message,” Boulet tells Newsmax. “If the polling
place has 10 fl ags and looks like a United Nations out-
post, that sends another message.”
Krikorian echoes that sentiment, saying, “The elites
in our society — business and government leaders —
are less interested in insisting that newcomers assimi-
late. The elites have lost their cultural self-confi dence.
Krikorian adds, “Nothing changes if mass immigra-
tion continues. When you add to that government-sub-
sidized bilingualism, you are creating a real problem
for our society.”
MAIN STREET, L.A. Nearly 55 percent of Angelinos
speak a language other than English at home.
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