Was It Something I Said?

<p>The good news is that I was referenced in another news-and-opinion site.&nbsp; The bad news is that I was said to <a href="http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=14236&amp;tag=">&quot;indulge in sanctimonious historical revisionism.&quot;</a></p>

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That’s because I <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/franklin-and">cited</a> Benjamin Franklin verbatim, and within the original context. Citing historical facts is not the hallmark of More…

Cuban-Americans Ready For Change?

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<p>The talk of South Florida is the possible changing of the guard in three congressional districts.<br />

For the first time in 20 years, long-time Republican members of Congress from greater Miami (Districts 18, 21 and 25) face strong challenges from Democratic candidates.</p>

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Super Tuesday Results Good for Immigration?

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<p>After Super Tuesday, the count of delegates places Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) far ahead of his Republican contenders.&nbsp; Sen.Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) continue to battle for the nomination, but the contest has narrowed More…

How Many Naturalized Citizens Will Vote This Year?

<p>The <a href="http://www.migrationpolicy.org/">Migration Policy Institute</a>, a Washington, D.C.-based independent think tank, issued in January of this year a <a id="ulch" href="http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=670" target="_blank" title="Naturalization trends">study</a> entitled Spotlight on Naturalization Trends in Advance of the 2008 Elections.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />

The study looks at the number of legal immigrants, as well as More…

Franklin and Immigration, Take 2

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<p>In my last post I <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/live-with-ben">cited</a> Benjamin Franklin on the subject of Germans who spoke only German.&nbsp; His words were reminiscent of the language frequently used today to describe immigrants, although it is no longer about More…

Live With Ben Franklin

<p>Turn on talk radio, or look up the <a title="Disunited polyglots" target="_blank" href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/29451.html" id="qd_6">nativist</a> web sites, and you will learn that today’s immigrants refuse to speak English and try to vote illegally; that they speak and write in their own languages, making interpreters necessary, and that if they are not More…

Do Blacks and Latinos Get Along?

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<p>It may not be the question you’ve had in mind, or possibly not phrased in this way, but the Pew Hispanic Center has released a study titled &quot;<a id="o0y1" href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/713/blacks-hispanics" target="_blank" title="Pew Hispanic Center study">Do Blacks and More…

Immigration Fails to Rally GOP Base in Florida

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<p>The Palm Beach Post is partly correct in its editorial of Jan. 31, <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/01/31/a22a_mccain_edit_0131.html">&quot;McCain Beats Extremism,&quot; </a>focusing on the failure of former Republican governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney to gain votes from his anti-immigrant positions. <br More…

Where Is ‘The Back of The Line’?

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<p>Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney agreed on at least one thing at the California debate Wednesday night: the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States need to go to the &quot;back of the line&quot; if they want to More…

How Do You Say Oklahoma in English?

<p>I&rsquo;ve been thinking about all of the new &ldquo;English Only&rdquo; laws at the state level.&nbsp; Like the referendum scheduled in Oklahoma to consider these <a href="http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08SB/SB416_int.rtf">propositions</a>:</p>

<blockquote>No state agency shall provide documents in any language but English.&nbsp; No local government shall provide documents in any language but English.&nbsp; No county More…