U.S. melting pot going from simmer to boil with English-only debate

“The push toward making English the country’s official language is gaining traction. The melting pot has gone from simmer to boil.

And it worries linguists and free speech activists who say there’s a nasty undercurrent of hostility.

“It was a stalking horse for immigration,” says Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist who teaches at the University of California, Berkley. “Now it’s a tin can tied to its tail.”"

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