“Out of deference to the critics, I want to comment on … what the bill will not do. First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same … Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset … Contrary to the charges in some quarters, S.500 will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia. In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think.”
-Ted “Chappaquiddick” Kennedy (LIAR-MA) lying about the Immigration Act of 1965
No need to address Killer Teddy’s third lie. Or those lies told by others. Now, addressing in English lies told in English would be lost on 67 million “Americans.”
Nearly half of the residents in the nation’s five biggest cities do not speak English at home, choosing instead their native language, according to the latest Census Bureau data that details the impact of a decade of soft immigration policies.
Overall, a record 67 million do not speak English at home, said the bureau. That is nearly double in 27 years.
In its just-released analysis of the Census data, the Center for Immigration Studies said, “As a share of the population, 21.8 percent of U.S. residents speak a foreign language at home — roughly double the 11 percent in 1980.”
The Center added, “In America’s five largest cities, 48 percent of residents now speak a language other than English at home. In New York City and Houston it is 49 percent; in Los Angeles it is 59 percent; in Chicago it is 36 percent; and in Phoenix it is 38 percent.”
No. No changes whatsoever.
As you make your way through any one of our modern Towers of Babel, please pause a moment to thank Kennedy, Celler, etc. for all the tasty ethnic food. (And why do I always hear, in my mind, “tasty ethnic food” spoken with a lisp?)
PERRIN LOVETT 