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“I’m always intrigued by people who complain that Latino immigrants who don’t learn English aren’t “assimilating”within American society.
Consider my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I was practicing law in the 1970s.
The jury pool for judicial trials consisted of citizens whose names had been taken from the voter rolls. Before jury selection, the judge would ask the jury pool (through a Spanish interpreter) whether there was anyone who could not speak or write English. Inevitably, about 20 percent of the group would raise their hands. They would be excused from jury service.”
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