Immigration

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50 PERCENT OF LA WORKFORCE ARE IMMIGRANTS
Los Angeles is at the leading edge of a U.S. demographic trend, with half of its workforce immigrants, many of them unskilled and speaking little English. Consider:

• As baby boomers retire, the same pattern will emerge across the country, reports the Los Angeles Times.
• Demographers estimate that by 2025 most of the growth in the workforce will be from immigrants.
• One-third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 percent do not speak English fluently according to the Migration Policy Institute.

Ernesto Cortes Jr., Southwest regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, said Los Angeles is at a crossroads...
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Voters Reject Obama's call for Bilingualism
Barack Obama said yesterday that

“instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English,” Americans “need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”

A national telephone survey conducted last month by Rasmussen Reports found that U.S. voters overwhelmingly disagree with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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