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The point, that we should be spending money on teaching English so that assimilation into American society and culture is made easier, is something that should happen.
However, putting it this way is embarrassing.
The problem is, there is a large section of society that sees teaching Spanish as an equal and substitute to English as another way of embracing illegal immigration. Whether that is a correct or incorrect view, as we know from arguing on here, an opinion like that is very hard to get past, and also can be easy to exploit for political gain.
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