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    MAURO MUJICE-CHAIRMAN FOR U.S. ENGLISH

    I oculd not believe what I was seeing on Lou Dobbs lastnight. The latino guy(mauro mujica), also an immigrant from my land of birth, chile, was the one saying latino immigrants should learn english and not be catered to but the American respresentative of DAllas schools-the american english speaker who was born here, is the one pushing for dallas principals to learn spanish. What is wrong with this picture. Could someone tell me. We need more latinos like Mauro Mujica. He like most chilean immigrants see that people like bush, his cronies as well as the so called latino activists are pushing for this spanish learning legislation because they know that by keeping latinos who dont speak english srom learning english, it is a way of keeping them uneducated, less qualified for better jobs, etc. While countries like Chile, ARgentina, as well as the people migrating from those countries to the U.S., want to learn english, you have people like that guy debating with Mauro Mujica trying to keep them from assimilating and being educated. To people like the mexican activists, and the american anglos who like this idea, it is a way for them to stay in control of latinos. They are the reasons so many of the uneducated central americans/mexicans who migrate here illegally donnot assimilate thus costing this country more money and grief.

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    We should show some support to Mauro E. Mujica.

    http://www.us-english.org/inc/default.asp

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    join his group

    I plan on sending a donation and I have allready joined his group and sent him an e-mail. He is great. I told him we need more latino reps like him. Too bad our americans reps can't be more like him. I can't believe the chilean guy sides with us and not our own politicians who supposedly support everything we value in this country.

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    Facts & Figures

    Ninety-two percent of the world’s countries (178 of 193) have at least one official language. (Source: 2002 World Almanac, 2001 U.S. Bureau of the Census Estimates)

    English is the sole official language in 31 nations (16 percent). An additional 20 nations recognize English as one of two or more official languages (total, 51). (Source: 2002 World Almanac, 2001 U.S. Bureau of the Census Estimates)

    In 2000, 11.9 million U.S. residents were linguistically isolated (LI). That’s up from 7.7 million in 1990, an increase of more than half (53.6%). (2000 U.S. Census)

    Immigrants who are not proficient in English pay a price: they earn 17% less than immigrants of similar backgrounds, experience, and education who are proficient in English. (Chiswick, B.R. and Miller, P.W., “Language in the Immigrant Labor Market,� in Immigration, Language, and Ethnicity: Canada and the United States, Washington D.C., American Enterprise Institute, 1992.)

    In June 1998, California's voters gave a 61% landslide to public policy entrepreneur Ron Unz's Proposition 227 outlawing bilingual education. By the end of the following school year, immigrant 2nd graders in those California schools that were already in compliance with Prop. 227 were reading at the 35th percentile, compared to the 19th percentile for those in schools that were still bilingual. (Steve Sailer, Bilingualism – bipartisan blunder, March 22, 2000)


    Voters across the nation loathe bilingual education. A national Zogby poll in 1998 found that 84% of Republicans and 72% of Democrats favored requiring schools to use English immersion. (Steve Sailer, Bilingualism – bipartisan blunder, March 22, 2000)


    Within the last decade, the number of Spanish-speaking residents in Ohio has increased by more than half to about 213,000. More than a third of those said they could not speak English well. (Kimberly Melton, Agencies Seek Interpreters, Akron Beacon Journal, July 7, 2003.)


    The Virginia Supreme Court has certification programs for Spanish court interpreters and is considering certification programs in Vietnamese and Korean. In 2002, 36,625 people were served by language interpreters in Virginia criminal cases, at a cost of 2.7 million to taxpayers. These numbers have almost doubled since 2000 and are expected to keep rising. (AP, Courts respond to rise of Virginia’s Spanish-speaking population, July 6, 2003.)


    The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing that Hispanics died from job injuries at a rate 23 percent higher than the average for all ethnic groups. The report, based on 2000 figures, found the fatality rate for Hispanic workers to be 5.6 per 100,000, compared with 4.2 for white workers and 3.8 for black workers. Language barriers were cited as a main cause of this discrepancy. (Tom Ramstack, Labor program trains Hispanics in job safety, Washington Times, June 10, 2003.)


    A new study by the Brookings Institution shows an alarmingly high rate of the foreign born population cannot speak English proficiently. Here is the 2000 Census data for the 10 U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest foreign born populations. Metro Area Foreign-born population % not proficient in English
    Los Angeles 3,449,444 37.0%
    New York 3,139,647 26.4%
    Chicago 1,425,978 31.0%
    Miami 1,147,765 37.1%

    Houston 854,669 37.0%
    Orange County (CA) 849,899 34.7%

    Washington D.C. 832,016 21.1%
    Riverside (CA) 612,359 34.5%

    San Diego 606,254 27.2%
    Dallas 591,169 41.0%


    (June 12, 2003, Washington Post, "D.C. Region’s Immigrants Faring Better than Others", Mary Beth Sheridan)


    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 requires several hundred municipal and county governments across the country to provide translated voting materials where there are large numbers of people who do not speak English. In Queens, NY, for example, all voting materials must be available in Korean, Chinese and Spanish. (Mike Swift, Spanish Errors Irk Latinos, Hartford Courant, June 15, 2003)


    President Bush’s budget provides $665 million in 2004 to help English language learners acquire English language skills. This is a 49 percent increase over 2001 and includes $68 million set aside to prepare teachers of English language learners. (The Facts About English Fluency, www.http://www.nclb.gov/start/facts/english.html)


    Nineteen states have reported an increase of more than 50 percent in English language learners over the last three yearsâ€â€

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    In 2000, 11.9 million U.S. residents were linguistically isolated (LI). That’s up from 7.7 million in 1990, an increase of more than half (53.6%). (2000 U.S. Census)
    This is just what the U.S. Census recorded. More evidence of the recent influx of illegals.....

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    I am also acquainted with aa few families in California and New Mexico who have resided in the same place for hundreds of years who speak Spanish in house.
    I support enforcement and see its lack as bad for the 3rd World as well. Remittances are now mostly spent on consumption not production assets. Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)

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