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Outcast Immigrants
All immigrants to the United States should be required to learn English. It would be in their best interest that they learn English. If they didn’t learn English then they would be an outcast to their peers. It would be very difficult for the immigrants to communicate with other people without knowing English. English is spoken throughout the United States so the immigrants wouldn’t know anything that is going on around them. If an immigrant didn’t know English and they went to school, then they would be forced to become an outcast. The immigrant would have a limited amount of friends. They would have the kind of friends that speak the same language of the as them. Students in the united states wouldn’t want to hang out with a person who

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