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Our house progressive, Randall Burns keeps talking about the Christian Science Monitor, and maybe he's right: the May 12 edition contains a story headed "For environmentalists, a growing split of immigration", by Brad Knickerbocker. It's a good statement: nothing VDARE.COM hasn't covered in e.g.
Liliana Valenzuela is a senior at Richmond High School in California.
She maintains a 3.84 GPA and hopes to pursue a career as a registered nurse after she graduates this June.
Up until today, Ms. Valenzuela was afraid she would not receive a diploma this year—because she has been unable to pass the California High School Exit Exam.
No English? No Math? No Problem...here's a diploma!
An Alameda Superior Court judge just issued a temporary injunction against the California High School Exit Exam saying it discriminates against poor students and those who don't speak English.
Full story (here)
The State of California has graduation standards--a student must be proficient in math at the 8th grade level and in English at the 10th grade level or they do not qualify for a high school diploma.
I mentioned Ron Smith's online article quoting Steve Sailer's Vdare.com article, Unequal Justice: Duke Lacrosse Team vs. Three (!) Minority Football Heroes, Steve reports that he'll be on WBAL 1090, Baltimore from 3:15--3:30 PM EDT, to talk about it with Ron Smith.
Undocumented, as we all know, doesn't mean someone who's lost his papers, but an illegal, who never had legal residence in the first place.
One of the jokes in the Late Night Roundup did was this from Jay Leno:
Norwegian blogger Fjordman has expanded some earlier thoughts about the danger to America (and therefore western civilization) from unrestrained Mexican immigration which constitutes a kind of warfare [Another American Century or Another American Civil War?].
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05/11/06 - A California Reader Says Immigration-Free Japan Is The Model To Follow
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