“It is long past time English is recognized as the official language of the United States”

It is, and it should have been done by Congress long ago.

If you refuse to learn the language of the country you claim to adopt as your home, you are simply an invader.

I have known, and worked for, many immigrants to the US, All of them, each and every one of them, learned the language of the country that they chose as their adopted home. It is part of becoming an immigrant, of making it yours.

“The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

“A melting pot, yes. A tower of Babel, no.”
Saul Bellow

‘My children learn Spanish in school so they can grow up to be busboys and waiters. I teach them English at home so they can become lawyers and doctors.”
Ernest Ortiz