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Making English the official language of the United States is a false policy issue. The evidence does not support arguments that the use of English is declining or that the use of other languages debilitates the social fabric of the United States. On the contrary, attempts to impose English on the U.S. population have served historically to divide the nation. The facts do not support linguistic or social fragmentation. English is the language of state and the common language of the U.S. population. Immigrants continue to enter the United States because of the protections and opportunities it offers, and they give highest priority to learning English. The real language-policy issues have to do with literacy and high-level multilingual skills. A sane national language policy would give primacy to literacy and would promote multilingualism. The nation's energies must be directed at language policies that empower all citizens rather than punish some.

The evidence does not support arguments that the use of English is declining or that the use of other languages debilitates the social fabric of the US. On the contrary, attempts to impose English on the US population have served historically to divide the nation. Further, the facts do not support linguistic or social fragmentation: English is the language of state & the common language of the US population; immigrants continue to enter the US because of the protections & opportunities it offers, & they give high priority to learning English. It is argued that a sane national language policy would give primacy to literacy & would promote multilingualism. The nation's energies must be directed at language policies that empower all citizens rather than punish some. HA

Arturo's Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute, a place in which Madrid's ancestors predate those who landed at Plymouth Rock.In the Country of Empty Crosses is Madrid's complex yet affirming memoir about lands before the advent of passable roads--places such as Tierra Amarilla, San Augustín [insert "u" and note accent on I], and Los Fuertes that