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Obama said that Americans should worry more about whether their own kids learn Spanish than about whether immigrants' kids learn English.(Brief article)

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Obama said that Americans should worry more about whether their own kids learn Spanish than about whether immigrants' kids learn English. ("They will," he breezily asserted.) Absent a failed immigration policy, however, there is no great reason for Americans to learn Spanish as opposed to some other foreign language. And even with our failed policy, it is far more important for immigrants to learn English than it is for natives to learn other ...

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