BRAVO!
 
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Subject: [EnglishLanguage 1356] Re: [BULK] Re: Immigration Bill
 
And while we are protecting our borders, we should remodel the Statue of
Liberty and the poem:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.

>From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
""Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
 
 
Stephanie Shultz 
ESL Facilitator
Telamon Corporation
917 Mt. hermon Rd.
Salisbury, MD 21804
410-546-4604 ext 118
sshultz at telamon.org
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Subject: [BULK] [EnglishLanguage 1335] Re: Immigration Bill
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Nancy,

Certainly the "needs of the people" are the very reason for government
in the first place. The immigration debate however is about who gets to
be "the people."  Societies that don't control their borders, and hence
their language and culture and shared values ceases being a society at
all. There are no examples of successful societies that have permitted
themselves to be overrun with uninvited guests. 

Kearney Lykins
ESOL Teacher
Virginia Beach, VA
 
 
 
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Subject: [EnglishLanguage 1331] Re: Immigration Bill


Gloria, thank you so much for sharing this.  I was not aware in such
detail of this portion of the proposed bill. 

On this past Sunday, I listened on our local NPR station to a talk given
by Jared Diamond, author of Collapse:  How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed.  One of his main tenets was that societies in which the ruling
class fails to understand the needs of the rest of the people (i.e.loses
touch with reality) ultimately fails. 

Nancy 

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[EnglishLanguage 1321]  Immigration Bill
 
 
 



  
  
Has anyone read the Immigration bill being debated in the Senate? 
For all the talk from the politicians about immigrants learning English,
this is what is included in the 324 page bill (available on CSPAN): 
  
(Sec 709): 29 SEC. 709. English Learning Program. 
30 (a) The Secretary of Education shall develop an open source
electronic 
31 program, useable on personal computers and through the Internet, 
32 that teaches the English language at various levels of proficiency,
up 
33 to and including the ability to pass the Test of English as a Foreign

34 Language, to individuals inside the United States whose primary 
35 language is a language other than English. The Secretary shall make 
36 the program available to the public for free, including by placing it
on 
37 the Department of Education website, and shall ensure that it is
readily 
38 accessible to public libraries throughout the United States. The 
39 program shall be fully accessible, at a minimum, to speakers of the
top 
40 five foreign languages spoken inside the United States. 
41 (b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be 
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appropriated to the Secretary of Education 1 such sums as are necessary 
  
Section 704 discusses Citizenship and Integration Councils- also worth
reading.  (Is this EL/Civics?). 
  
Gloria Gillette 
Northeast ABLE Resource
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