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Illegal Immigration On The Decline

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Posted on October 2, 2008 - 5:30pm at Post Politics
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Greg Siskind brings the news:

The Pew Hispanic Center estimates the number of illegally present immigrants entering the US each year has dropped from 800,000 to 500,000 just in the last few years.

Not Sweatin’ The Black/Brown Divide

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Posted on July 24, 2008 - 11:03am at Post Politics
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From the Tennessee Democratic blog:

Latino Voters Favor Obama by a 2 to 1 Margin Over McCain

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Posted on July 24, 2008 - 9:56am at The Donkey's Mouth
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According to a new poll released by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center, Latino voters favor Sen. Obama over Sen. McCain 66% to 23% with 11% undecided. With such a large margin of support for Sen. Obama, worries about Latino support dwindling for the Democratic Party due to the exit of Sen. Hillary Clinton have more or less been eliminated.

"Thank you for correcting my English, which stinks"

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Posted on June 29, 2008 - 11:01pm at Enclave
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The Nashville English First website was down for a while today (or at least I couldn't access it), and it looks like the wait has paid off as they've updated it with their special patriotic July 4th edition (okay, it looks exactly the same as the pre-patriotic July 4th edition).

Well, If They Already Speak It Then What’s The Problem?

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Posted on June 10, 2008 - 5:04pm at Post Politics
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The diversity czar over at the Nashville Scene talks to a Vandy sociologist who tells him that Nashville doesn’t need Eric Crafton’s English-only referendum because Nashville’s immigrants already speak English:

More Opposition to Crafton’s English-Only Proposal

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Posted on June 10, 2008 - 3:11pm at Pith In The Wind
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"The U.S. economic downturn may already be encouraging undocumented workers to leave the country or not come over in the first p

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Posted on June 7, 2008 - 7:35am at Stone Soup Station
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"Tantalizing" perspective here....

Recession May Be Driving Off Illegals Wednesday, Jun. 04, 2008

Listen Now or Listen Later

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Posted on February 4, 2008 - 8:10am at Tiny Cat Pants
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Mack wrote a letter to the folks who had the get-together I told you about the other day.  I have a bunch of points I want to make, in no particular order.

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