[muawiyah]

One way that worked, both in the US and Canada, was to simply take the children away from the families and put them in boarding schools.

The parents don't usually like it, of course, but unlike the American Indians used to perfect this technique, the Mexicans came here voluntarily and knew what to expect.

They could take their complaints to the Mexican Congress I suppose.

[bordergal]

How should California teach roughly a quarter of the state's public school population -- students who are not native English speakers -- how to read and write?

WE shouldn't. Most of these students should be home in Mexico learning their lessons in Spanish.