Archive | Multilingual America

More than a third of Denver students are "multilingual learners."

How are classrooms with overwhelmingly Hispanic students?

He wondered if a disruptive commissioner knew English.

Federal law requires a degree of English proficiency.

There would be an English language testing standard for naturalization.

School board member dared warn of the burden non-English speakers place on schools.

"Nonnative speakers" apparently can't grasp ebonics.

It will include slang such as "hip" to "diss."

Babel America.

Happy Cinco de mayo.

Twenty-three percent of Californians are illiterate.

"If Joe Biden keeps shipping illegal immigrants into our states, we're all going to have to learn Spanish."

Whose country?

What do Americans really want?

How to use the multicultural zeitgeist against itself.

Even on a New York City schoolboard, it is possible to fight back.

Siler City becomes Mexico pequeño.

But the number is trending down.

What actually happens when races mix.

Close encounters of the racial kind.

"37 percent of Latino immigrants spoke English proficiently in 2018."

A new flavor of Balkanization.

USCIS has granted $92 million to prepare immigrants to become citizens.

This is a neighborhood where mass violence was just waiting to happen.

From 2000 to 2020, the number of Asians eligible to vote grew by 139 percent.

Most will be doled out by HHS's "Office of Minority Health."

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

A reflection by Peter Bradley.

Public health mandates haven't been translated into enough languages.

Asians may be undercounted because the census is available in "only" five Asian languages.

The vintage wisdom of Larry Auster.

Illegals are worried they will reveal their immigration status.

Immigration is profoundly changing the nation we will leave to our grandchildren.

A white woman wakes up.

Most of them are Hispanic or Asian.

Every candidate is vigorously Hispandering.

There are two Americas that have nothing in common.

Coronavirus is not the only problem.

How an all-American city became a beachhead for the third world.

There is a sharp rise in non-European languages.

An oligarch's view.

The late John Tanton was prescient in 1991.

Even President Trump's campaign has been running ads in Spanish.

Will we one day accept immigrants from Europe?

"America has the noblest tradition of helping the needy . . . [but] they must abide by the rule of law."

And there's no word for "caucus" in Spanish.

The Chinese pretended they didn't understand English and had simply gotten lost.

Is opinion shifting on immigration?

A visualization of our demographic transformation.

James Kirkpatrick on America's balkanization.

“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.

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.