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No shortage of non-English-speaking defendants in US.

89 percent of Missourians vote to make English the official language.

DOJ "observers" will be in 23 states looking for Voting Rights Act violations.

Symbols matter.

El Paso will be that way until immigration stops.

Mexico likes that 74% figure.

One in five Californians cannot speak English well.

Putting a happy face on immigration and white dispossession.

Oregon measure would limit ESL classes to two years.

LPGA sees "wisdom" of knuckling under to Asian legislator’s threats.

Bilingual ballots are an attack on island’s Spanish heritage.

Of all the places to make it a requirement!

Catholic Diocese may require students to speak English while at school.

Social studies, science courses to be taught in Spanish.

Univision's evening newscast seen by more people in NY, LA than ABC, CBS, or NBC.

Prestigious magnet school makes it easier for foreigners to get in.

Obama wants American kids to learn Spanish.

White man fights back.

Yapese? Malagasy?

American taxpayers foot bill for foreigners to learn English.

Hispanics frustrated that whites "don’t even try to understand" Spanish.

Translation: Police and city government must speak Spanish.

Mandatory English creates "atmosphere of intimidation, inferiority, and isolation for Hispanics."

In US, you need to speak Spanish to get entry-level jobs.

English-speaking Hispanic prefers to speak Spanish on the job.

Not enough black, Hispanic, Samoans, Hmong docs; too many white ones.

Second-grade teacher required Pledge to be said in Spanish.

The primary language spoken by 70 percent of metro LA residents is not English.

Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations gets it right.

Fewer people are fluent in Spanish in Miami.

Too white.

People in South Florida can’t understand each other.

Testing Hispanic kids’ English proficiency "unfair" and "anti-bilingual."

In Grapevine, Texas, minority whites have to learn language of majority Hispanics.

Fertility rises.

Requiring that orders be placed in English is discriminatory.

EEOC: Requiring English is national-origin discrimination.

Immigrant: "I am not leaving this country, so I should learn the native language."

Whites and blacks agree: immigrants should adopt America’s culture and language.

Hispanic congressman: "English-only is the only issue that unites all Hispanics."

1 in 6 students in California schools speaks little or no English.

Code of courtesy for whether to speak Spanish or English not yet developed.

Learning to pronounce America’s vowels and consonants properly is "priddy" expensive.

Over 10 years, a 260 percent increase in deaths of Hispanics in construction.

People who don't like hearing Spanish aren't fond of Hispanics, either.

California to "outsource" nursing education to Mexico.

43 percent of Californians don't speak English at home; 53 percent in L.A.

Bilingual rangers and brochures part of plan to bring Hispanics to national parks.

Another benefit of "diversity."

More patients don't speak English

Washington goes brown.

In some Arizona districts, ESL teachers teach in Spanish.

Plan is to keep Hispanic families together and reach out to non-Hispanics.

Approximately 3.5 million children of illegals now attend US schools.

Mayan dialects and African languages cause the most trouble.

Town councilor says immigrants should learn English and respect local rules.

Happy Juneteenth!

District may have to hire more ESL teachers for Burundians.

No interpreter could be found for defendant who spoke rare West African language.

It's all about maintaining a "viable work force."

Univision would provide simultaneous interpretation.

Opponents call bill "exclusionary."

Chinese is "the language of the future."

Texas schools recruit Spanish-speakers from Spain, Philippines, Mexico, others countries.

English only measure “does not reflect who we are in Nashville.”

Diversity gets in the way of free speech . . . again.

School district maintains different routes for students speaking different languages.

Rising medical-care costs include increasing expense of translators.

"Go directly to jail" cards now come in Spanish.

Measure draws a standing ovation.

‘Wetback’ redux.

Lawyer: Police must "cater to the language of the market.”

Speakers of Mixtec, Oaxaca and other languages moving to the US.

Black hatred for whites eclipses self-interest.

Spanish-speaking immigrants will learn English — within "a few generations."