The Third Side

Conservative side: There Should be a law maiking English the ONLY language in America
Liberal Side: We should extend services to Immigrants in their language to help them understand the papers they are signing etc.

My Side: What about Puerto Rico? Guam? Why should natural born American Citizens be forced to deal exclusively in their non-native tongue? In this age and day we don't need to mass produce forms and mail them out, most of the time they are printed in the office at the time you go in. An extra Gig of information per office is not going to be cost prohibitive. it might cost us as a country an extra million a year. Here's my penny, where's my change?

Other thoughts to consider.
Since Marriage is a state as well as a religious institution all wedding ceremonies would have to be in English. No Hebrew, Spanish, or Latin.

Even though somebody might be fluent in English, it might not be their most fluent language. Having properly translated documents available would increase and broaden knowledge and understanding of a particular document, issue, or even ballot initiative. For example a person with a doctorate in French language usage might only have a 3rd grade reading level in English.

Immigrants to this country are already required to learn English in order to take the citizenship test. Read it, write it, speak it, and understand it.Which means an immigrant must show and prove more fluency in English than a natural born citizen does.

An English only amendment such as the ones proposed by groups such as:U.S. English http://www.us-english.org/inc/ , or English First http://www.englishfirst.org/ would also make it more difficult to distribute official AMerican Documents in other countries. Imagine in the aftermath of a Tsunami, Hurricane, earthquake or war people dying because the informational pamphlets that could have saved their lives were in English instead of the native tongue. This is not to say that these amendments would neccessarily cause this, or that the people writing them would desire to see this happen. But it is to say that seeking an exemption for materials distributed in foreign lands, or in Non English speaking American territories would become needlessly complicated. There would simply be too many caveats and loopholes for a law such as this to have any teeth.

As an off topic aside: stop Shooting the illegal immigrants and start shooting the people who hire them. Problem solved.