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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

Several posters before me have commented to the effect that she must have been incredibly lazy not to have learned English while growing up here; it has further been suggested that perhaps she deliberately avoided learning English.

It is not apparent to me that she was raised here, or for that matter has lived here as an adult for any considerable period of time.

Anchor baby?

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ORIGINAL: igor2003

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

Several posters before me have commented to the effect that she must have been incredibly lazy not to have learned English while growing up here; it has further been suggested that perhaps she deliberately avoided learning English.

It is not apparent to me that she was raised here, or for that matter has lived here as an adult for any considerable period of time.

Anchor baby?

According to this vid clip she was born in a border town in Arizona but spent most of her first 17 years in Mexico.  http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/national/poll-should-esl-speaker-alejandrina-cabrera-be-banned-from-election-in-predominately-latino-town

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She can improve her English skills if she wants AND then run for this office.

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess

I see this as a slippery slope issue. In my mind, the FAIREST solution is to stick to English as our language of politics. If we start catering to the Spanish speakers who want to serve in political office, I want someone to explain to me why someone who speaks any other minority language in the U.S. should not be given the same right? And then suddenly we are going to have city councils in some parts of the country where the council members are not able to speak to each other at all. Does anyone really think good government can come from this??

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Original President Theodore Roosevelt

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American.

"If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul [sic] loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."