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Jeb Bush Continues to Agree with Jorge Ramos/Open Borders crowd in promoting bilingualism for the USA

Excerpted from "#TODOSPORJEB!: BUSH CAMPAIGN POSTS SPANISH SIGNS AT NEW MIAMI OFFICE AS JEB CALLS TRUMP ‘POBRECITO’" at http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/13/todosporjeb-bush-campaign-posts-spanish-signs-at-new-miami-office-as-jeb-calls-trump-pob

Bush’s use of foreign languages in America on the presidential campaign trail has landed him in serious trouble in recent weeks, particularly when he attacked GOP frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump in Spanish at a press conference a couple weeks ago.

“El hombre no es conservador,” Bush said in Spanish of Trump while speaking to press at the La Progresiva school in Miami, which teaches kids both English and Spanish. Bush’s comments translate to: “The man is not conservative.”

Bush was responding to Willie Horton-esque type ad from Trump’s team, published on Instagram, that compared Bush’s previous comments praising illegal immigration as an “act of love” with images of convicted criminal illegal aliens, including murderers. Had the United States enforced its immigration laws, the illegal aliens’ American victims would still be alive....

“I like Jeb,” Trump said. “He’s a nice man. But he should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States.”

Technically, U.S. immigration law requires immigrants who are naturalized as U.S. citizens to prove proficiency in English before getting citizenship. Since illegal aliens aren’t permitted to vote, that means there is but a minuscule percentage of the voting population in America that can’t, under U.S. law, speak English. The only people who that situation — being able to speak Spanish but not English, while also being a U.S. citizen — would apply to would be people born in America with U.S. citizenship who never learned English. Even most anchor babies, people born here with U.S. citizenship to mothers who came to the U.S. illegally to give birth to their children here, do learn English, so the amount of people who can vote for Bush and speaks Spanish but not English is almost nobody.

As such, Bush’s team continues claiming he is speaking to people who are bilingual, or speak both English and Spanish, but won’t answer why he doesn’t just talk to them in English, a language that all of them speak rather than dividing Americans by speaking to some in English and others in a foreign tongue....

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I honestly have no problem with a candidate speaking to potential voters in the language with which they feel most comfortable. Certainly immigrants are supposed to demonstrate English proficiency, but we all know that there is legal proficiency and there is fluency. The two are not one and the same.

But a private individual, whether a guy on the street or candidate for the US presidency, is not a government. Our Government should establish clearly a national language of English. Official documents should be printed only in English, except as needed to support foreign tourists and visitors.

I see this as being both for the good of the nation and the good of the immigrants. No one who is not fluent in English in the US can possibly benefit from the opportunities our nation provides. Therefore, lack of English fluency is a handicap that results in low wages and often in poverty, which our Government then sees as need for a "safety net."

With the exception of asylum seekers who are fleeing repression or possible death, immigrants should be screened and selected, not for what the US can do for them, but for what they can do for the US. If there is a shortage of people in the hospitality industry, then admit people willing to work, at least initially, in hospitality. If there is a shortage of people having Phds in Theoretical Physics, then we should seek out immigrants who bring such needed education and skills. This is similar to the immigration systems in many other nations and similar processes should be used here.