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[RedefinedDiva]

Well. I am sticking with the position that immigrants shouldn't be required to know English off hand when entering the country. I do think that opportunities should be given for them to learn once adjusted to the country. Most of the immigrants in our country are not legal, thereby unable to seek out these opportunities as easily as others. Besides that, there aren't even people out there that are willing to teach these people. Most people that have posted on this thread barely want to deal with people with minimal knowledge of English. Imagine trying to teach those with NO knowledge. I have had a hard enough time trying to get an adequate knowledge of English and I've been speaking it my whole life.

I would also have to disagree with SportsLuva. Although times have changed, when Josephine Baker and others from the Renaissance era relocated to Paris and other countries to be accepted regardless of their color, do you think they knew the native language?

How would our lives be different if someone would taken the attitudes of today and applied it back then? We have to change our attitudes.