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VP Biden on the importance of Latinos

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Sounds like the heir apparent is a fan of my stuff: “Vice President Joe Biden rallied Latino members of Congress on Thursday to push for immigration reform, calling Latinos ‘the center of the nation’s future’ and reminding them that their political power will only grow after the last presidential election. ‘The way to make the Read More

Preparing for a more American America

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The more I read about it, the more profound it becomes: “White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That’s part of a historic shift that already is reshaping the nation’s schools, workforce and electorate, and is redefining long-held notions of race. … America continues Read More

‘Learn English’ is the wrong policy [Video]

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And the Democrats fire back. From Fox News Latino: “Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress on Wednesday presented the nine principles that should guide comprehensive immigration reform they say will contribute to the economic recovery. During a press conference in the Capitol, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus insisted that immigration reform is cannot Read More

The Spanglish are coming! The Spanglish are coming!

Diverse students

It’s finally happened. What anti-multiculturalists the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santorum and Pat Buchanan have railed against – at least since September 2001 – has finally come to fruition: ethnic minorities are being born at a higher rate in the United States than the traditional, European majority. For the first time ever in American Read More