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How did Americans respond to the immigration of Spanish speaking people?
The response to immigration of Spanish speaking people has always been to try and keep them out or debase them through unwanted jobs with little pay. When immigrants first began coming from Mexico after the Mexican-American War, Mexican landowners lost their land, were forced to use English speaking lawyers and generally were forced to take jobs that no one else wanted and that did not pay what a white American would receive. The English Only movement was determined to make English the official language, meaning that people of Spanish speaking origin would have to learn English in order to pass literacy tests for school and jobs.
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