If you assimilate and adopt local customs (such as speaking English) you are an immigrant.
If you insist on living the way people do in your grandparents’ foreign shtthole, then you are an invader.
Born here or not.
Code speak for you have to teach them in their native language. Learning English was not the priority for the students and teaching English was not the priority for the school.
WaPo sucks.
In Mexico, everything is done in Spanish. Period.
The many born here they refer too are anchor babies
I learned English the old fashioned way-- led about by the teacher and having my butt kicked until I started to explain in both word and deed how I would whip my classmate's butts if they didn't stop making fun of my name.
One of the biggest favors the school did was provide a speech therapist so I wouldn't sound like Inspector Clouseau for the rest of my life.
Just about every European immigrant I've ever met and their kids like me have resented the constant politically motivated kiss-up to Hispanics.
My dad went to kindergarten not knowing a lick of English. Early 1930’s.
He didn’t respond to the teachers so they thought he was retarded. Then they finally figured out he didn’t know English, but spoke Ukrainian.
He graduated top of his class in high school.
And he was completely fluent in both languages with no accent in either. Just every once in a while the Ukrainian grammar would slip out and even though it was English, it was just worded differently enough. We noticed because we lived with him and heard him all the time but others never picked up on it.