but it may already be too late.
Obama’s desire to legalise undocumented immigrants,about 11 million people,to placate his angry and mobilised Latino base against what the Gallup and CBS polls show as strong American approval of Arizona’s crack down on migrants. Just how strong the opposition is,was shown when the Mexican President,Felipe Calderon,who was visiting the U.S.,called on Obama to overhaul the immigration system,Obama responded bluntly,“I don’t have 60 votes in the senate.” If Obama gets the 11 million Latinos citizenship the Democrats will get 11 million votes and Mexico and American President. (The Australian,21.5.10 p.11)
Arizona is full of Latinos and has had enough. Not only were whites in Arizona losing their state they were losing their language.
By a new law school teachers in Arizona whose spoken English is deemed to be heavily accented or ungrammatical can be sacked. The reason is obvious. How long before all Arizona’s schools were taught in Spanish? The Guardian Weekly,21.5.10.p.3.
A small town in rural New York State,Jackson,has passed a law requiring all town business to be conducted in English.
While successive waves of immigrants had happily adopted English in the past,“it seems like we’re straying away from that now and people want to return to the culture of the country they came from”. The Telegraph,May 19-25 2010 p.14.
In England a record 900,000 schoolchildren speak English as a second language.,how many in Australia.? Something the Liberal and Labor party do not tell us. Just how many students are taught in a language other than English?
The Labour party in England lied about the number of migrants in England. How can we be sure that the Labor and Liberal parties are not lying to us in Australia about the numbers of illegal immigrants coming in by plane?
