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Saturday`s Letters: A New
York Reader Reminds Immigrants of the Importance of
Learning English

From: Barry Farber [e-mail
him
]

Re: Joe Guzzardi`s Column:

McCain, WSJ `Amnestied Aliens Will Learn English,
Civics!” Joe Guzzardi “When Hell Freezes Over!”

Thanks to Guzzardi for his
always-insightful articles and his unflagging
determination to tell us the real news from the front
lines of

(non) assimilation
.

My

grandparents
were ground-kissing grateful to be in
America and learned English to the extent that their
children spoke no

Yiddish
!

They had no dreams of a Jewish
conquista, much less a

reconquista
, so for them

English
was always a top priority.

My guess
is the Spanish-speaking population today has reached
such a critical mass that it can go a lifetime

without speaking English
.

I`d like
to know Guzzardi`s diagnosis of why there are

empty seats
in his classes.


Farber, who speaks 26 tongues, is a host of



Talk Radio Network
,
the founder and president of the New York Language Club
and the author of several books including



How to Learn Any Language
.

Says Farber about what it means when immigrants don`t
learn English: “Whosoever simply refuses to learn the
language of his chosen homeland is not just admitting
but proclaiming, `I am an indigestible element inside
your body!`



Joe Guzzardi

responds to Farber`s question about empty ESL
classrooms:

The
reason the classes are empty is exactly what Farber
points out: the Mexicans (and to a lesser extent Asians
and Muslims) are so entrenched in their enclaves that
there is no need to learn English. They can live their
entire personal lives without speaking English.  And now
at work, Spanish is so commonly spoken that they don`t
have to speak English there either.

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Saturday`s Letters: A Virginia
Reader Ask What About Amnesty`s Impact On Schools? What
About Medical Screening?

From: Deena Flinchum [e-mail
her
]

Re: Juan Mann`s Column:

As Guest Worker Amnesty Looms, Remember The GAO Fraud
Report

There are two major events that would occur within months if
Congress passes an

amnesty
. Neither has been debated.

The first is the massive inundation that our

K-12
schools will receive as immediate family
members are reunited with our newly-amnestied illegals.

The second is the equally massive

medical screening
task that should be completed—but
probably will not be—on amnestied immigrants.

First, if immediate family members (spouses and minor children)
are allowed to join the newly amnestied immigrants, we
will see millions of children of all ages entering our
K-12 public schools.

Many of these children will have had little or no schooling in
their native countries, and most will

not speak English well
.

Most of them will enter schools that are already struggling
with the

English as a Second Language
children already in our
country. They will require resources to bring them up to
a level where they can actually begin to benefit from
the regular course work that students are expected to
complete under

No Child Left Behind
.

If they are truant or fail the NCLB tests, they will severely
impact our schools, possibly even forcing cuts in their
federal funding. Our schools will find it increasingly
difficult to offer decent math, science and technology
educations to those students able to benefit from them
whatever their origin. 

It is also possible that we will
see an enormous amount of fraud, as we did in 1986, as
friends and distant relatives are reunited with
immigrants in the US who are not really their immediate
families.

Second, all legal immigrants are screened for contagious
diseases before they are allowed into the US. Therefore,
the amnestied immigrants, who were never screened since
they were previously illegal, should also be subject to
a medical testing. 

As recent research projects have indicated, there has been a
dramatic rise in some communicable diseases in the US in
recent years as a result of the influx of

unscreened illegal immigrants
.

Particularly dramatic is the rise in drug resistant
tuberculosis. If we start the screening amnestied
immigrants, we will also have to trace the contacts of
any of those who test positive for these

communicable diseases
.

Even if
the US decides not to make a medical screening part of
the amnesty process, we will still face years of work in
tracking down contagious diseases brought into the US by
these illegal immigrants; however, we will be doing it
one case at a time as

new outbreaks are discovered
.

When you consider that

20 million illegal immigrants
may be at issue, this
is shaping up to be a disaster.


Flinchum, who lives in
southwest Virginia, retired a few years ago from a
career in the exciting and now endangered—at least for
US workers—field of Information Technology.  She spends
her time doing volunteer work for a local library, a
humane society, a farmers` market, and a branch of
Second Harvest. She has had several



letters to the editor

and op-eds published, mainly
dealing with immigration issues.

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Saturday`s Letters: A California
Reader Says Make It Two Days Without An Immigrant

From: [Name Withheld]

Re Brenda Walker Blog:


Mark May Day On Your Calendar!

How
about two days without an immigrant?

After the immigrant community

abuses our hospitality
on May 1st, let`s have a
second boycott on May 2nd.

Every American citizen who has an
immigrant maid,

housekeeper
, or gardener should tell him or her that
his services will not be needed on that day.

Every American

grower
with immigrant work crews should tell them
that crops will not be picked that day. Every American
contractor with

immigrant construction crews
should schedule no work
for that day.

And American consumers should
boycott any business where they are served by immigrant
staff on that day.

Can`t tell who is an immigrant and
who isn`t?

Then use this as a rough guide: On
May 2nd, simply don`t shop anywhere that you have
trouble understanding the

English spoken
by the staff.

The
writer is a resident of the Bay Area of Northern
California

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Saturday`s Letters: A Mexican
Reader Makes An Anatomically Impossible Suggestion

From: Edgar Joel Vega Diaz [e-mail
him
]

Re:

Joe Guzzardi

Why you don`t go to F— you?



Joe Guzzardi
replies:

As I tell my ESL students at the Lodi Adult School, the
important thing is to practice English at every chance.
I applaud Sr. Vega Diaz for his efforts at expressing
himself in English. But, to be effective, vulgarities
really should be grammatically correct.

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Saturday`s Letters: A Florida
Reader Remembers the “Rawhide” Cry

[Name Withheld]

Re: Juan Mann`s Column:

Do Reconquistas Already Run Federal Immigration Policy?

While I was watching the parade of
illegals here in

Fort Myers
waving

Mexican flags
while supposedly just wanting an
opportunity in the United States, I thought a

solution
might be from the old television program

Rawhide
where the cry was: "Round
`em up, head `em out
.”

The writer asked not
to be identified since the 75,000 aliens who
demonstrated in Ft. Myers might not take kindly to
his views.



Peter Brimelow

writes:


Rawhide


was big in Britain too.
I thought it was



“Hit em up! Move `em out!”


But the sentiment is the same.

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Saturday`s Letters:  A
California Reader Says Alien Boycott Is Much Ado About
Nothing

From Hal Netkin: [e-mail
him
]

Re: Brenda Walker`s Blog:

Mark May Day On Your Calendar!

The
objective of a workers` boycott is to prove that without
them, the employers will feel a hardship. But according
to several newspaper reports, the

organizers
are asking employers not to punish their
employees for taking the day off.

In other
words, the employees and organizers are asking
permission from employers to allow the employees to
boycott them.

What`s
next?

Not
buying anything for a day is a joke too. Illegal aliens
and

poor immigrants
don`t have much money to buy more
than food. What money they may have

leaves the U.S. economy
for Mexico or another Third
World country. The purchasing power of illegal aliens in
the U.S. is miniscule and if withheld for a day will not
even be noticed.

The other
ludicrous aspect of May Day
is

students boycotting schools
. My adopted
Hispanic daughter, a straight "A" student who attends
Van Nuys Middle School with a large Hispanic enrollment,
will enjoy at least for one day her teacher`s undivided
attention.

The

high school dropout rate
in the

Los Angeles Unified School System
according to

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
is 50 percent — and the
vast majority of dropouts are Hispanic students.

Many who
stay in school won`t necessarily graduate, however,
because they can`t pass a state mandated eighth grade
level

exit exam
in three tries. These students only hurt
themselves when they walk out.

Yes, the

demonstrators
will get attention—like they did
before they repulsed Americans.

See my

website
for a look at the obnoxious posters
being placed all over Los Angeles.


Netkin, a conservative and anti-illegal immigration
activist, lives in Los Angeles. His father and mother
were Jewish immigrants from Poland who came to New York
in 1930.  He spoke only Yiddish when he entered the
first grade in Brooklyn. But with in two months, his
English “was as good as any kid on the block.”

Netkin spent four years in the U.S



Air Force

including a tour of duty in Korea.

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Saturday`s Letters: A Texas
Reader Wonders If Drs. Frist and Kevorkian Are Related

From: Gerald Martin [e-mail
him
]

Re: Edwin S. Rubenstein`s Column:

Bush Amnesty May Be Much Bigger Than Advertised

Are Drs. Kevorkian and Frist
related? 

One makes a little suicide machine
of plastic, glass and rubber tubes to

kill one person
at a time.  The other promises
to build a big suicide machine made of laws that give

amnesty
to guest workers that will kill off an
entire nation.

Although for those of us who don`t
want to commit suicide, Frist`s plan is a

genocide 
machine.


Martin describes



Texas
as the “the
Northern part of Mexico.”
  He is an ex-soldier,
ex-teacher and an ex
Sierra
Club
member.

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Saturday`s Letters: A California
Reader Calls Governor Schwarzenegger a Sell-Out

From: Peter Klopfenstein [e-mail
him
]

Re: Joe Guzzardi`s Blog:

Bustamante Death Threats

It appears these death threats,
which are a regular fare for most prominent politicians,
are being trotted out to prevent the

majority opposition
to illegal immigration from
consolidating.

Unless those opposed to illegal
immigration act as

effective voting block
in upcoming elections, we
will not make progress.

Even

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
, our once beloved
non-liberal knight in shining armor, our answer to the

Gray Davis
nightmare, has finally fallen in line
with the illegal immigration agenda. We have no one to
fight for the majority any longer.

I wonder if Schwarzenegger will
again veto

driver`s licenses for illegal aliens
. If he doesn`t,
that will tell the true story.



Joe Guzzardi
adds:

The enormous publicity,
at least



in California
,
surrounding the alleged death treats to Lt. Gov. Cruz
Bustamante and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is
clearly because it suggests immigration reform
proponents as gun-toting crazies…just the image the
liberal press laps up.

Both Bustamante and
Villaraigosa played down the threats but the media
maximized it.

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Saturday`s Letters: An American
Indian Psychiatrist Thanks VDARE.COM For Business

From: Ruben Ovando [e-mail
him
]

Re:

VDARE.COM

I find your site quite amusing! 

You are such unhappy people.  Maybe

Europe
would be a great place for you to move to
since then you can be among your ancestors. 

With the number of

experts
you have writing for you, and writing
letters to you, it bewilders me that you haven`t found
Osama

mowing someone`s lawn
or making the

hamburger
you ate yesterday.

Keep up the good work!  It makes my
day knowing that I will be in business for a long time.

I`m a shrink.


Ovando describes himself as a “very dark American
Indian
.”

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