The English First or English Only movement is such a pant load. It's just (not too) thinly veiled Nativism.
People have no sense of historical memory in the U.S. I recall reading that at the beginning of WW1 the papers with the largest circulation in Cincinnati and St. Louis were .... German language papers.
By the way, there were people screaming from the rooftops about German, Italian, and Central European immigrants not speaking English then as well.
I'm sure some of the people screaming the loudest today had relatives speaking Croatian and German in 1914.
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