... of good moral character and to 2 believe and stand by the US Constitution. "In July 1993, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) conducted a U.S. citizenship swearing-in ceremony almost entirely in Spanish."" (INS, various news sources) If English is a requirement to obtain US Citizenship then what is the problem with making it the official language? Not only is Iit absurd, but it ... . Students have difficulty succeeding in the average classroom if they do not speak English, so school districts have developed ESL classes which are taught in English by bilingual teachers who he...

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... story where the father left every summer and would return, when his son grew up and thought about what his father did to get ahead, he asked his father to help him cross to the United States so he could do the same. The children that were taken from the beginning or even born in the United States after the undocumented ... younger they were when getting to the United States, the more English was used because of school, friends, and even television and Spanish was mainly learned at home. Not only were the parents the only one teaching them Spanish at home but they were still trying to ed...

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... American population. It has been said that immigration is as old as America itself. Immigration traces back as far as the 1500's when the West faced the coming of the Spanish. At that time, the Americas had been settled by the Indians, who were soon threatened by the first immigrants of America. These ... Spanish conquerors threatened to undermine the culture of the Indians as well as their way of life. Evidently, immigration started from the beginning of our country's time and has had an ... of Chinese descent. Others moved to support the growing need for labor in areas such as minin...

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... to the United States a huge expanse of land that included the present- day states of California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and parts of Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. The 75,000 Spanish-speaking residents of this southwestern territory became citizens of the United States without having immigrated here. Relatives on both sides of the border with Mexico continued to travel back and ... the need for workers in the United States and the perceived opportunities for work and for freedom that the rapidly growing country offered. There was a great demand for laborers to help construct America'...

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... immigrants voted in Fresno and Tulare County in November 1994; and a prominent legal alien - a Mexican businessman and a publisher of a Spanish language newspaper - cast a ballot in both 1992 and 1994, despite his lack of American citizenship. The translations have large errors and help for fraud too. So are bilingual ballots enough to guarantee an informed vote? The federal government should not pay the ... ...

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