Immigration Impact

August 11, 2007

Missing the Target: Anti-Immigrant Ordinances Backfire

Filed under: Reports

IPClogo…for the Immigration Policy Center…

If you believe Bill Chase, a member of the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors from Stevensburg, Virginia, the Latino immigrants who have moved to the county in recent years aren’t as willing to learn English as his own immigrant forefathers.  “I think we all came from foreign countries and turned into English-speaking Americans,” Chase told The Washington Post on August 9.  Then, apparently without appreciating the irony, he added, “But I don’t feel a willingness of this particular group to do that.  I don’t see the willingness to blend into society”…

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