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Arizona council candidate may be forced to take English test
The logic step is to make English the official language of the USA.It’s nothing new for politicians to jab at their rivals’ (lack of) credentials. But their English proficiency? Welcome to San Luis, Ariz.
The City Council recently asked for verification that activist and council candidate Alejandrina Cabrera could speak, read and write in English, as state law requires of public officials. The action was in response to allegations by Guillermina Fuentes, a former mayor of the fast-growing border city, the Yuma Sun reported.
“I interpreted everything to Alejandrina because in many cases she did not understand what was being said,” Fuentes told the paper, which could not reach Cabrera for comment.
The council’s action could mean that the city hires someone to test Cabrera’s English fluency. In San Luis, nearly all 25,000 residents are Latino and about 88% speak a language other than English at home, according to Census Bureau data.
Cabrera is one of 10 council candidates running in the city’s March primary, the Sun said. She is considered something of a rabble-rouser, having spearheaded two failed recall attempts against the current mayor of San Luis, Juan Carlos Escamilla.
Escamilla voted in favor of testing Cabrera’s grasp of English, TV station KSWT reported. "I feel I don't dominate 100%,” he said of his English skills, “but I can still get by, I can write, read and understand it very well.”
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.
Definately for people who want to represent Americans, if, they don't want to, where does their allegiance really lie?
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.


It should be Spanish since the majority of America speaks it, ie Central, and South Americas, which includes three islands in the Caribbean and of course North America which i believe, correct me if im wrong, Spanish is the second most spoken language here. Not including Canada of course.

So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.


Speak American you fucks, English is for those tea-sipping Brits and Canadians....
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
not yet plucked as to slacken the seams
and drag down the features of age,
no folds or creases from unkempt wear
eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
no sign of despair in their hair, nor their hearts
but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
Funny. Half of you can't put together an almost coherent sentence in English.

So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.


I agree w the OP. logical is the key word.
I find this confusing. Republicans are trying hard to test this woman's English skill to allow her to run for an elected office.
Stopping right there I want to make clear I think everyone is the USA should know English.
However, Republicans are all about not making more laws to encroach upon our freedoms. Yet one of the most basic, important, and taken for granted rights we have is the right to vote. If the majority of people vote for someone to represent them in government, like it or not, that's who they voted for.
You may make the argument that one should understand what is being said and talked about or they cannot really be trusted to do the "right" thing and I would have to agree with you. Many other great arguments can be made as well. I would likely agree with most if not all of them.
One thing I never acquiesce to though is not honoring the people. If they are SO STUPID as to elect someone then that should be what they get. Far to many have given their time, limbs and lives fighting for our right to be stupid not to honor that.
After all it's not like the majority of people in this country even understand their rights. Care about their rights. Are willing to stand up for their rights. Willing to die for their rights. Are not so spoiled as to even know that their rights are fought and paid for by the blood of hero's.
Most people here on IM seem to be much more aware of reality than the average person in this country regardless of their political beliefs. So what should it be? Honor the public will (vote) or not?
I for one say OH HOLY CRUD we are in deep s*** this country has become so stupid. If you don't believe me just look at the last two presidents. The people elect the worst that the republicans have to offer then go right off the deep end and elect the worst that the democrats have to offer.
Don't forget this fact as well...we let our government get so out of hand that corporations are now the real people and power here. Human beings are nothing more than workers to serve the corporations.
How did we get so messed up? Someone running for office that doesn't understand English, corporations are people, pizza is a vegetable, steroids are the evilest of all drugs, and oh umm I guess I have gone on long enough.
Hey at least John Huntsman says people are not corporations. I think Ron Paul thinks the same thing as well. (I am not sure) But because we are so stupid as a people neither one of them has any chance to be elected.
Wow I am feeling somewhat sarcastic today. Sorry.

First off, I agree with nearly everything you said in your post. Nicely put.
The reason for the law in Arizona is that they're doing whatever they can to stop the influx of Mexicans. If you get some shitty Mexican that got amnesty (in California), hasn't bothered to actually learns the language, and is being voted in by other Mexicans that got amnesty, this is how you stop it.
I don't know where you live, but I've spent the majority of my life in the south-west. Mexicans are fucking it up and the actual Americans have had enough and are doing what they can to stem, and hopefully stop, the invasion.
And it doesn't help that the President is a Mexican-pole smoking asshole. Or that many of the elected officials (in both parties) are willing to commit treason in order to get more votes.
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.
I was born in sad diego, ca. Sad Diego because of all the illigal's as well as some other things. I only recently moved to the mid west. I lived 35 minutes away from Tijuana for most of my life. I remember the illegals ever since I was a child. Funny thing is that most illegals back then were very hard working nice people. For some time now that has not been the case. They have somehow gotten the idea that they are entitled to anything they want and work is something they don't feel they need to do. You know, like the work of getting into the US the right way.
It is all to funny, except it is also so dangerous that you are correct Obumo is a Mexican-pole smoking asshole

So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.


I actually have heard the same thing. A family friend is an American, but comes from a mexican family and he works on a huge strawberry farm as the cook. he has noted a significant change in the type of mexicans that come here to work. He says that all of the older ones are incredibly respectful and hard working. But, the younger generation is a bunch of gangster wannabes that don't want to work.
The other route is to simply not give amnesty...then no illegal immigrants will be voting; therefore, the chance of a non english speaker winning any election is very very low.
I'm just not a fan of forced English by legislation or legal mandate. Its already forced socially really...unless you agree to be restricted to only work in unskilled labor forever. This elected official won't even be able to make vote or understand what is going on in the debate....she won't understand what motions are going on, what the rules of the forum are...ie she'll just get walked all over and be forced to be wall flower with no influence on the board.

The damage that Jimmy Carter needs to be undone. Speaking English fluently needs to be mandatory for all immigration applicants.
We also have to repeal the law of anchor babies.
The issue is that since the USA doesn't have an official language, fuck ass retards says shit like applications should be in Spanish (of the Mexican variety).
She have the motions and documents translated. Fuck that, the bitch needs to go.
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.
That should come as no surprise. GWB was sucking Vinvente Fox's cock when he was pres. I wouldn't expect the next POTUS to do any differently. I'm not a conspiracy nut. But, I'm wondering if there may be something to the rumor of a North Amrican Union. I can't help but notice that as soon as NAFTA was passed, my hometown of Bham, AL was flooded overnite with Mexicans, 90% of them most likely illegal. It was around '97 and there was a huge exodus of illegals all through the southern states. It does seem that there's more going on than free trade.
Obama/Ayers 2012!!!
NAFTA helped to secure mexico into the neoliberal economic order. NAFTA flatlined the mexican economy almost over night, starting off a domino effect and subsequent jobs crisis. Clinton signed off an enormous bail out for mexico to prevent it from collapsing into a failed state. The influx of illegals is just a natural result of legislation designed to bolster corporate profit while simultaneously destabilizing the job market. There have been discussions of tying mexico, U.S, and Canada together in similar fashion to the E.U. for a long while now. That's not conspiracy, it's just ugly truth.
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