RSSMexicans feel brush-off in Pennsylvania town
Carolyn Hileman* | February 20, 2007
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. - Bridgeport, population 4,500, is the kind of hometown that holds a stickball tournament to raise money for kids with cancer. It’s the kind of place that lauds firefighters for rescuing a beagle from a second-story window. It’s the kind of place where Brubraker’s Screen Printing makes discounted T-shirts for the town watch. It is also a place where Hispanics say they have not felt welcome since the Borough Council declared English the official language and approved penalties for housing or employing illegal immigrants. “They treat us differently,” said Carmen Cortes, 17, a high school junior. “Like we’re alien.” Bridgeport enacted the law in the summer after a similar measure in Hazleton, Pa., set off a trend spreading to 27 states. None has embraced the movement more than Pennsylvania.
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This is so obscenely “French” it’s really funny. As we all know how well the French have dealt with immigration.
“The French government has passed a slew of laws since 1975 banning foreign words from advertising, official documents, scientific meetings and publications, radio and television.”
More brilliant commentary from ammonius. /sarcasm
Can we just accept that “illegal” aliens are here “illegally” and that they are criminals? Knowing that is there really anything wrong with also cracking down on people that are breaking the law and those that aid them?
As for the English only issue there is nothing wrong with that either. It costs money to print signs and the more you have to print and the more printing you put on a sign the more expensive each sign becomes. There is nothing “French” about it.
It WOULD be “French” however if immigrants both legal and illegal were not being asked to assimilate into society which has lead to huge problems for France lately including riots and such.