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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's true that the Spanish-speakers are cleaning houses and mowing lawns for the most part. And that most of them are here illegally.

And while you're at it, plug in local ZIP codes in the Family Watchdog sites and notice how many sex offender violations are directed to the address of the INS/immigration offices. Nice, huh? [/quote]

This may well be true in the middle of nowhere, where you must live, but is certainly not the case in main cities nor in the US at large. Most people who speak Spanish are here legally. Not only that, but Spanish was likely spoken in US territory before English was.

You can choose to enlighten yourself a bit here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_United_States

- "The Spanish language is the second most used language in the United States. There are more Spanish speakers in the United States than there are speakers of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Hawaiian, and the Native American languages combined. According to the 2010 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, Spanish is the primary language spoken at home by almost 37 million people aged five or older, a figure more than double that of 1990.[1][2]"
- "Spanish was the language spoken by the first permanent European settlers in North America. Spanish arrived in the territory of the contemporary United States with Ponce de León in 1513. In 1565, the Spaniards, by way of Juan Ponce de León, founded St. Augustine, Florida, and as of the early 1800s, it became the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States."

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