On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:34:03 -0800, Montblack wrote
(in article ):

("Bob Noel" wrote)
How many citizens can only read/write Spanish?


Citizens.

Trick question! :-)

Not really. As I said, about 14 million, including the Puerto Ricans, all of
whom are US citizens. The same surveys show that of those *citizens* who
speak Spanish at home, another 15 million or so are able to speak some
English, whether it is a few words or fluently.

As for aliens, both legal and illegal, they are hard to count, but most
reliable counts indicate about 11 million who speak only Spanish. That would
be a total of 40 million Spanish speakers in the US.

I am disturbed by the apparent assumption that any Spanish speaker must be an
illegal alien. The vast majority of Spanish speakers in the US are citizens.
A lot of them are descended from people who were living in what is now the
USA long before the Mayflower ever got here. It really is ignorant not to
know that.

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