There is growing support for (or lessening opposition to) the rapidly increasing presence of foreign language in America.

Many progressive pundits tout the acceptance of Spanish and other foreign tongues within our major cities and by our leading industries.

They believe all of America should embrace the dependence our immigrants and foreign born citizens have upon these languages, and that to suggest facilitated assimilation or immersion classes is somehow xenophobic or violates the freedom acquired by those immigrants when they first tread American soil.

Such rhetoric is not only void of national pride but ignorant to the true nature of freedom in this nation.

Those making a case for the allowance of accommodations to be made for those who cannot speak English, rather than programs to help them learn it, often cite the fact that all Americans are descendants of immigrants.

This is true, but many of those immigrants recognized that a commitment to their dreams of prosperity in a new land would be debased without an equally upheld commitment to the customs of this country.

The core of American ideals is founded on the principles of toleration and acceptance. To support English as the official language is not in defiance of these founding ideals.

To allow the presence of a unifying language to be defeated would be to ultimately fail in the preservation of those principles, values that allow people of other origins to prosper within the United States.

For the nation to embrace socially, or accommodate politically, one’s inability to be proficient in English would only perpetuate the magnitude of ever-worsening problems.

You only have to look to the world around us, France and Iraq being pertinent examples, to realize countries like our own, made up of a large and diverse population, have to establish a unifying culture or national character.

To be unable to speak English in America renders one incapable of complete assimilation, inhibiting both accesses to social mobility and the realization of an increased quality of living.

More imminent problems include the widening divides between social classes, a negative influence upon race relations and added stress within the inadequate public healthcare and education sectors.

America has, and always will, accept immigration. Immigrants must be urged to fully accept America.