Archive | Multilingual America

“To continue in English, press 1; to continue in Spanish, press 2; to continue in Yoruba, press 3.”

“It’s a patient’s right to have language-interpreting services.”

Even the local priest is booed for supporting illegal immigration.

"The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today’s" — a perfect book for waverers.

The making and unmaking of the US.

Liberal historian Arthur M. Schlesinger dances around uncomfortable truths.

What does it mean when a black witness says, “She steady telling everybody business”?

Only theoretically.

Because Puerto Ricans live there.

60 percent of Republicans say a majority non-white population would "weaken American customs and values."

No comment.

Police get paid more if they know a second language.

Warning students of possible consequences is not only discriminatory, it is “coercive.”

He "failed to convey [his] strong belief that diversity . . . is what makes America."

After killing the program, the school calls it “offensive.”

The tests are excluding “talented people of color.”

A former Vancouverite returns to ask, “What became of my people?”

Race politics at their best.

Even 42% of Democrats feel like strangers.

18 percent of Austin’s public school students need English-language services.

Beef plant has attracted non-whites to rural Colorado town.

Being bilingual is his only qualification.

He thinks it should be considered equal to "white" English.

Spanish leads the list, with 41 million speakers.

White share of youth under 18 declined 11 percent from 2006 to 2016.

Black vs. Hispanic confrontation over language.

Happy Mexican Independence Day!

They want access to Spanish-language ballots, election materials, and assistance.

Congolese immigrant has learned to say, “America you mother f–kers!"

The economy of white states cannot “move forward” without non-white employees.

GOP can't recognize a winning issue when they see one.

The figure for Florida is 29 percent.

Generals fight the last war. Journalists analyze the last campaign.

Young English speakers now sound more like Mexicans. It's the "Liberal accent."

An immigrant who tells us how to run our country.

Russian or Hispanic?

One hundred and seventy years ago today, the Mexican-American War came to a close.

Victor Davis Hanson's "Mexifornia: A State of Becoming."

Posh restaurants just can’t survive without illegal immigrants.

California has 11 of the 26 lowest-performing districts in literacy and basic education.

2042 has already arrived in a DC neighborhood.

Casey draws on Michael Hart to argue that you can’t have a multicultural democracy.

The number is up 34 million since 1990.

Minimal gains in English proficiency by foreign-born Hispanics since 1980.

Happy Mexican Independence Day.

State must pay for interpreters in civil as well as well as criminal cases.

Who cares?

Census numbers can't be trusted.

Spanish-only speakers can now help with ICE's mission...

A glimpse of multicultural America.

Notes on the coming demographic transformation.

Will you be able to choose?

Democracy is increasingly seen as a means to an end, not an end in itself.

The triumphalism of Jorge Ramos.

It's in Spanish and English.

The number was just seven percent in 1980.

"Will illegal aliens who are drunk drivers stay sober to honor their boycott day?"

But it's expected to come back

Says to Hispanics: "You are the future of America."

Tuesday's ballot initiative overturning Proposition 227 is likely to pass.

They speak languages such as Quiche, Mam, and Chuj.

LA Mayor Garcetti: '“We are well past the tipping point--everywhere.”

To 65 million.

But the New York Times calls it "new face of California."

The critic of everything American should never have been let in.

That's the cost to educate the 4.9 million students designated as Limited English Proficiency.

How one Atlanta suburb went from 95 percent white to 20 percent in a generation.

What law enforcement is really like.

Judges often delay immigration hearings requiring Q’anjob’al, K’iché, and Mam interpreters.

Are whites waking up?

A third of Nashville public school students don't speak English as a first language.

They can bring China with them.

Virginia district says there is no age limit for illegals.

Teacher of English language learners asks, "How much immigration diversity is too much?"

Reporters couldn't understand the candidates.