Immigration Nation
1) The density of the Spanish-speaking population in Southern California allows Mexican immigrants …to continue speaking their mother tongue very well until the third generation… — longer than any other group… — but Spanish still goes extinct thereafter.
"Like taxes and biological death …linguistic death is a sure thing in the U.S., even for Mexicans living in Los Angeles, a city with one of the largest Spanish-speaking urban populations in the world."
2) Immigration raids have practically wiped out one Georgia town, "underscoring just how vital the illegal immigrants were to the local economy," writes Russ Bynum of the Associated Press. Since Sept. 1, federal officials have rounded up more than 120 illegal immigrants in Stillmore, Ga., a town of about 1,000. Hundreds more fled to avoid deportation. Now the town’s poultry plant is struggling to find workers, the story says, and business has dried up at the few local stores.
3) At the University of Michigan, the Democrats brought in a long-serving liberal, Rep. John Dingell, to address students. And Michigan’s branch of the College Republicans? They planned to stage "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" on campus. …
