1. How do we get back the passion that poor immigrant children and newly freed slaves once had for education? 2. As immigrant children have flooded American public schools, an English-only movement has flourished in opposition to such programs. 3. At the time, the Senate was considering a bill governing procedures for keeping immigrant children in custody. 4. Basically, the Unz proposal wants to force-feed immigrant children with English from the get-go. 5. Before the INS signed a contract with Texas-based Southwest Key to sequester the immigrant children, the job was handled by social-service agencies. 6. Borjas also wrote that immigrant children today are far more likely to remain in poor, segregated communities. 7. A report released Wednesday by an international human rights group skewered the Immigration and Naturalization Service for its treatment of illegal immigrant children at a holding facility. 8. After the Coolidge facility opened last year, the INS began transferring to the facility many illegal immigrant children apprehended in California. 9. After a testy partisan debate, the House overwhelmingly approved a measure Wednesday that would allow states to deny public education to illegal immigrant children. 10. But a smaller proportion of Russian Jewish immigrant children, and many fewer Southern Italian immigrants, did so. |
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