News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Bush urges immigrants to learn English

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Thursday told a largely Hispanic audience at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in the White House that America is a nation of immigrants but that all new arrivals should learn English.

"Those who come here to start new lives in our country have a responsibility to understand what America is about, and the responsibility to learn the English language," Bush said. "That's what we want."

Bush in recent days has intensified his stance on English as he tries to win support in Congress for a controversial guest-worker program for immigrants.

As governor of Texas and during his first run for president, Bush strongly favored bilingualism.

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