According to Sarah Palin, Spanish-speaking immigrants should "speak American" when they're in the United States.

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee made the comments after she was asked to chime in on a tiff between 2016 contenders Donald Trump and Jeb Bush over Bush's use of Spanish on the campaign trail. Trump recently suggested that candidates should only speak English while campaigning in the U.S. In response, Bush called the GOP front-runner intolerant. Bush, who often incorporates Spanish at his events, promised to keep speaking Spanish as he sees fit.

"I think it's a benefit of Jeb Bush to be able to be so fluent in Spanish because we have a large and wonderful Hispanic population that is helping to build America, and that's good, and that's a great relationship and connection that he has with them," Palin told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

"On the other hand, you know, I think we can send a message and say: 'You want to be in America? A, you better be here legally, or you're out of here. B, when you're here, let's speak American.' I mean, that's just, that's -- let's speak English," Palin continued, reports Reuters.

The former Alaska governor also said that "a unifying aspect of a nation is the language that is understood by all."

Palin went on to say that if Trump was elected into the White House, she would consider working for his administration in the position of energy secretary.

"I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby," Palin said. "Oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use instead of us relying on unfriendly foreign nations."

Watch Sarah Palin's interview on CNN below.