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Look, when many of our grandparents (or whoever), things were different. Citizenship generally came about because the local party machine wanted your vote, so they signed you up. There weren't strict tests or background checks or any of that. Under today's rules, many of our ancestors wouldn't have made it in. Hell, a lot of the Americans I know wouldn't make it in based on some of the requirements unless they were from somewhere like Cuba.
I don't think there's a double standard. I think there's a new standard. Part of it consists of helping people to clearly understand what's going on, and the easiest and most obvious way to do that is to do it in their native language. It's most likely Spanish because, let's face it, most immigrants (legal or otherwise) are from Spanish-speaking countries. However, my local DMV has information in Polish, Russian, Korean and Hindi as well the last time I checked. And I'm ok with that, because I'd rather have people that actually understand the driving laws behind the wheel than those that had to guess at the meaning of many of the words.
As far as bi-lingual education, don't you think that the easiest way to teach most people a new language is to start in their native one? All school districts aren't created equally, and certainly some of those immigrant children are being underserved, but the idea is solid. And there have always been private schools that serve specific minority groups.
As far as the other things in your list, I don't see any of those things being applied exclusively to Hispanic immigrants. It very well may be that Hispanics enjoy those benefits more than others, but they also outnumber any other group of that type, so the numbers should be skewed.
As far as tax evasion, that's a crime. It's a crime that an acquaintance's father went to jail for, and he was a member of the Klan. If someone is working in this country illegally, of course they're going to be guilty of tax evasion. However, that's a completely separate issue than the one we're discussing.
It's ignorant because you're applying one standard to your grandparents and a completely different one to the new immigrants who just got here. Either everyone gets the same break or no one does.
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