The official languages of Puerto Rico are Spanish and English.Puerto Rican are citizens. Spanish is the primary language of Puerto Ricans, though English is taught, as a second language, in schools from elementary levels to high school. As of 2006, an estimated 3,860,120 people use Spanish as their primary language; English is the primary language of 82,000, which is less than 2.2% of the population. What is going to happen if English becomes the official language?

First of all, no offense to the Hispanic immigrants!
As myself one of the Non-Hispanic immigrants, I have complex feelings after hearing Sen. John McCain’s response on this question.
I know that Hispanic immigrants are the largest population in our country, and we all appreciate what they’ve done to enrich our country. However, there are also many many Non-Hispanic immigrants, who did the exactly same thing to enrich our country, but they have to learn English. Making the requirement for instructions and written information in Spanish, as well as including clerks / stores/ business/ government offices to have Spanish speaking employees is a deterrent to the requirement to learn English. There is no need or incentive to learn English since any services they require Spanish will be spoken to them. This is also a definite bias favoring Spanish speaking immigrants, since other immigrants must learn English. No other language instructions /information or speakers are available for Non-Hispanic immigrants. There are Spanish speaking residents in United States who have never learned English.
It should also be noted that the system for processing legal immigrants is not working. The government states that they process legal immigrant status for permanent residency occur within 120 to 180 days. Based on personal experience of the process taking 580 days and 560 days it appears that the present system can not efficiently process legal immigrants. It would be very interesting to see the actual average processing time. The system is inefficient lacks clarity and assistance for applicants. There is only one telephone number for the entirely United States to call for assistance. Anyone living in any state in United States who has question must call the same number that everyone else in the country has to call. The waiting time obvious is very extensive or you are advised that the wait is too long to stay connected. Therefore, numerous phone calls and extensive waiting occurs before you can speak to someone who can not even answer your questions. They generally try to transfer you to someone who may be being able to answer your question. Only, to be disconnected so that you must start the whole process over again.
In regards to the new immigration plan there are some questions;
1. If any illegal immigrant has been in this country for a number of years why would they register to join the new plan
2. Why would they voluntarily pay $5,000 when they are here already?
3. Why would they agree to go back to the country of their origins? Even if it is for a short time.
4. If they are here with identification and established in the US why would they volunteer to sign up for the new plan?
5. Does anyone really believe the “12 million” illegal immigrants will sign up for this new plan?
6. If they weren’t discovered before the new plan they probably won’t be discovered after the plan. Therefore, it appears the new plan will change nothing and the old laws are not been enforced. —so what will change?! !!

Senator McLain insults the rest of our American citizens by endorsing one language only, Spanish. Why didn't he answer in Creole, Hungarian, Swahili or another language. This prejuidice toward one language, other than English, runs through our entire political culture.

I was really impressed with McCain's answer on this issue. I thought it was clever and truthful. There is nothing wrong with immigrants entering this country legally, because they do "enrich our culture and nation". I'm interesting, however, to see how, specifically, McCain intends to enforce America's borders.

Mccain is no better than Ted Kennedy. Mccain wants to sell out Americans with his secret closed door deal to import illegal, cheap labor and drive down wages for Americans. Mccain is ignoring the Constitution, which requires our government to protect Americans from foreign invasion. Well what the heck else would you call the millions flooding across our borders, Mccain?

Doctor Ron Paul has delivered babies in Galveston Texas, a border area, for over 30 years. Ron Paul understands the border issues better than anyone.