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Old 12-12-2003, 10:10 PM
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My mother immigrated to the U.S. of A 45 years ago from Venezuela; back then, it was expected that all immigrants coming into the U.S. had to have a working knowledge of English. She speaks it fluently nowadays, though accented.

There is no official law on the books making English the official language of the USA. In fact, in our early days after the Revolutionary War we almost wound up speaking German.
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