The United States should not grant citizenship to immigrants if they cannot speak English

I think it would be in your best interest to look back and actually read what i've written. Withholding citizenship should not be a problem. With this new plan those in need would be able to enter the country and live here for a period of months before being granted citizenship. They would ideally be given everything they would need as those living off of a visa or green card. If you think about it that is all they need a place to live, they won't contribute anything to the government or community until they learn how things are done and without the understanding of the English language that is near impossible. Just follow logic here instead of repeating everything i'm saying. Your claim of "withholding" citizenship should have no effect on these people. Keep in mind the English that they will be required to learn will be simple, enough to understand and get by. I"m not asking them to learn every word or have a large understanding of the English language but rather enough for them to understand what they need, enough for them to be able to communicate their thoughts and needs. These are one of the basic needs of life, communication without it you can"t thrive. We see this in many places and it is even proven to us when you visit parts of California. Everyone is speaking Spanish signs are written in both Spanish and English on Government buildings, street signs, tourist attractions. In many cases the Spanish writing is written first. This is yet another proof and point of what I"m trying to get across. People need communication and understanding. It is up to them to conform to our culture not for our officials to speak their language. Not for our country to change to suit them. That is not how it works, and that is not how it should be. Once again something well said by cheyennebodie "When I visit a person house I do not demand that they switch their furniture around to suit me. That is what is happening in America today. And the coward businesses are falling in lockstep with the immigration pimps, the democrats, and posting dual language signs in their store. Why don't we just give them California? Of course we would have to build fences on that border as well when they destroy its economy as they did in Mexico. Although the democrats are already doing a good job of that." After that fact you still continue to avoid that it can help both them and us. You go on to nitpick and try to complicate things. I have already countered the fact that deaf people and people traumatized would not have to worry. Once again these people would be learning English to a very easy level. The curriculum would be easy for someone even with learning disabilities. They will be evaluated on their skills and as I said earlier months to learn the language this would put no pressure on those who have recently had a child, have minor learning disabilities or those who are as you say "traumatized". This is simply helping them assimilate themselves into our culture and helping them feel more a part of our society. Learning the language of the country is tied to helping immigrants settle into this new and different place, this is something that you cannot deny. People are lazy and it is natural to be so. You and I have nearly unlimited resources on the internet, we have money and access to programs with can teach us any language that we please. Why do we not apply our focus to these programs? Main reason being we don"t need to. If immigrants were not required to learn the English language they would not. It is not essential to their survival in this country but more essential to their success. In many Mexicans who live in California have no need to learn English, everything there is pretty much all in Spanish anyways, what is the point. That is something that we need to avoid, they are not majorly involved in politics or the economy but instead stay in their small communities leeching off of welfare checks with no need to change their ways. They are useless when it comes to marketing or creating a business. They have nothing when it comes to finding a job with corporations or bettering their community. As to your statement "I don't really understand why my opponent has chosen English particularly." I don"t think it"s that hard to understand why. It"s the language of the country and it is necessary if they want to succeed. Hmmmm as to your statement "We don't force people to learn skills because it's in their best interests to do so. We don't withhold citizenship from people because they refuse to learn these other skills, and I can't see why it makes sense to do so for English." This is terribly incorrect. We force people to learn skills all the time. Our whole education system is stemmed off of forcing public education because it is in their best interests. That is how the country works "for the people by the people", it"s as simple as that. "Moist of all, we have to trust people to act in their own best interests" <- a bit of a grammar mistake their on your part, but moving on. We can"t trust people to act in their best interests if that"s how things worked our country would falling apart. People would be uneducated and work low class jobs, forward movement in industries would skid to a halt and we would be stuck in a cycle of hunger. Losing all forward momentum in society would be the result of trusting people to act in their best interests. I for a fact can say that if I was given the option of whether or not to attend public school as a child I would have undoubtedly said NO!