@ISIDEWITHQuestionsimmigrationStarted 11yrs agoActive 4 days ago

Should immigrants be required to learn English?

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75%
Yes
25%
No
59%
Yes
19%
No
15%
Yes, but the government should provide free language learning courses
4%
No, we should embrace the diversity that immigrants add to our country
2%
Yes, and remove multilingual translations from government documents and services
2%
No, but remove multilingual translations from government documents and services

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 @8P3F3JTfrom Ontario  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, current legal immigrants should be required to learn fluent english, french , and spanish

 @B3HJK9Rfrom Manitoba  answered…4 days4D

Immigrants should have some knowledge in at least one of the two national languages, and the government should provide free or subsidized language learning courses

 @9LX8MD9from Ontario  answered…10mos10MO

Yes, with the inclusion that French should also be accepted to reflect our status as a bilingual country.

 @9LLKTTYfrom Ontario  answered…11mos11MO

Yes, but only if they are not immigrating to Québec or another francophone region of the country, in which case they should instead be required to learn French.

 @9L8JRVWfrom Ontario  answered…11mos11MO

Yes, but not legally? Like they wouldn't get fined or something if they don't learn it, but if they want to be functioning members of society they are expected to.

 @9L4XKWXfrom Ontario  answered…11mos11MO

I feel like they should learn English or French, but only to help them with their communication in the country. Not to remove their sense of where they came from in their language. It would only be to help the communications in the country for everybody's benefits.

 @9KTFCM7from Ontario  answered…12mos12MO

No, but the government should provide and heavily encourage the use of free language learning courses.

 @9KNV289 from Alberta  answered…12mos12MO

No, because we live in a Bilingual Country. Immigrants should be highly encouraged to learn either French or English

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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