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Small New York Town Makes English the Law
NY Times ^ | May 13, 2010 | Walsh

Posted on 05/13/2010 7:23:03 AM PDT by walsh

It’s about 2,500 miles from this green, rural town in the rolling hills near Vermont to the Mexican border at Nogales, but that hasn’t stopped Jackson from making a bid to be New York’s small version of Arizona in the immigration wars.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; english; newyork
Great news!

Three cheers for Mr. Meyer and the Town council!

1 posted on 05/13/2010 7:23:04 AM PDT by walsh
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To: walsh

I got run out of a restaurant in Montreal for speaking English.


2 posted on 05/13/2010 7:31:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: walsh
Small New York Town Makes English the Law

Dey tawk English in Noo Yawk?

3 posted on 05/13/2010 7:32:00 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: a fool in paradise
‘I got run out of a restaurant in Montreal for speaking English.’

Their country, their rules.

4 posted on 05/13/2010 7:35:50 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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To: Polybius

‘Dey tawk English in Noo Yawk?’

Upstate, yes.


5 posted on 05/13/2010 7:37:30 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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To: walsh
KUDOS!
6 posted on 05/13/2010 8:12:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Excusaholic: MeCain lost to Jr., RINO endorsements are flying, & you live at 2012 Denial Blvd.)
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To: walsh

Yep. One step at a time. I hope every town in the US does the same.


7 posted on 05/13/2010 8:12:39 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: a fool in paradise

were you wearing a Maple Leafs sweater?


8 posted on 05/13/2010 8:25:00 AM PDT by rahbert (Only a poor snake charmer blames his snake..)
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To: walsh

Cool!

My relatives had to assimilate, why don’t the new immigrants?


9 posted on 05/13/2010 8:31:43 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: walsh

Don’t these white people get it that there’s reconquista going on in Vermont? That was Mexico’s territory! Yanqui go home!


10 posted on 05/13/2010 9:29:13 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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Ping!


11 posted on 05/13/2010 12:22:37 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Illegal is a Crime, it is not a Race ~)
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