Because many Americans blamed this on the economy being controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, the populist movement gained traction by promising to help mainstream Americans financially. ... This helped steer away some competition and keep the United States at the top. The final major event of any diplomatic relations in this era was the Spanish-American War. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. After intervening between Cuban and Spanish conflict, the U.S. was then dragged into the Philippine Revolution ...

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The 75,000 Spanish-speaking residents of this southwestern territory became citizens of the United States without having immigrated here. ... There was a great demand for laborers to help construct America's cities and railways, and tasks formerly performed by skilled workers were now being done in mechanized factories with unskilled workers....

• Word Count: 718
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"The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punished for speaking Spanish, but that others say is a return to sanity" stated Don Terry in his article Bilingual Education Facing Toughest Test. ...

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Some move to ethnic pockets, such as New York City's Chinatown or Miami's Little Havana, where Chinese and Spanish respectively are sometimes more common than English" (Redemske 1 ). ... Nowrasteh asserts that bilingual citizens (which are typically immigrants) are actually being used to help keep America safe by deciphering foreign languages. ...

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With over half of this massive population being from just south of the border, it is no wonder why discussion surrounding immigration in the news is dominated by topics such as violence in border communities due to drug trafficking, the "takeover" of Spanish speakers in the U.S., the competition for jobs amongst American citizens and Mexican immigrants, and the financial burden placed on border states to support this illegal population. ... Furthermore, technology and nodes both help to close distances and bring people together. ...

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So even a child as young as five years old has to go before an immigration judge on his own, without the help of a lawyer, if one isn't provided, and confront the prosecutor in order to appeal the deportation (Marathon 5). ...

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