{"id":24197,"date":"2011-06-17T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24197"},"modified":"2011-06-17T08:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:32:21","slug":"why-arent-you-speaking-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24197","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t you speaking English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Texas, the State Senate held a hearing into their latest illegal immigration bill. Antolin Aguirre began his testimony in Spanish to the panel through an interpreter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktrh.com\/cc-common\/news\/sections\/newsarticle.html?feed=121300&#038;article=8719378#ixzz1PXGgvW3E\">Senator Chris Harris asked him why he was speaking in Spanish<\/a> despite the fact that he&#8217;d lived in this country since 1988;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNKWISYPdZ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two minutes into Antolin Aguirre\u2019s testimony, Sen. Chris Harris, a Republican from Arlington, interrupted asking Aguirre\u2019s interrupter, &#8220;Did I understand him correctly that he has been here since 1988?&#8221; Harris asked. &#8220;Why aren\u2019t you speaking in English then?&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My grandfather was born into a Swedish immgrant household where only Swedish was spoken, yet he learned English after he went to school and conducted all of his business in English from then on. My kids were brought up on Spanish while we lived in Panama, learned German when we lived in Germany and learned French when moved to Vermont on the border with Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish TV networks have a vested interest in keeping the Latin population illiterate in regards to the language they speak and they push the &#8216;right to maintain their culture&#8221; bullshit, which not only harms the individuals, but the American tax payers, too &#8211; to make the Spanish networks rich. English is the language of commerce in this country and if you can&#8217;t speak English, you can&#8217;t conduct your business.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Texas, the State Senate held a hearing into their latest illegal immigration bill. Antolin Aguirre &hellip; <a title=\"Why aren&#8217;t you speaking English?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24197\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why aren&#8217;t you speaking English?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}