BarryLS1,
Few if any illegals vote. Some states don’t even have voter registration or let you register on election day and they don’t have any problems. And it definitely makes sense to create a path to eventual citizenship for illegal immigrants; the alternative is to create an East-Germany style police state where everyone is informing on their neighbor as to the nationality of their household help. (Not to mention the massive tax increase that would be required by such.)
And I can’t believe that someone would be objecting to multiculturalism on a frum site. We orthodox Jews are supposed to be the prime example of not assimilating into the culture around us. Clearly you have assimilated into WASP society with that attitude.
And I should point out that I live in the Bronx, which is now over 50% Hispanic. My next door neighbors are immigrants from the Dominican Republic; they speak English fluently and their 20something daughter speaks fluent English with an American accent. My backyard backs up to the backyard of a Puerto Rican family who speak fluent English with an American accent. The only folks in my neighborhood who don’t speak English with an American accent are Jews! And a few months ago I was passing through a Hispanic neighborhood in the South Bronx, changing buses, and I could not believe that I heard more English than Spanish being spoken.
And I don’t get why one should forget Spanish. It is spoken by 400 million people. You want to do well in this world today you better know multiple languages.