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The article doesn't mention to whom Gingrich was speaking, but I am willing to bet that he was pandering to the anti-immigrant crowd. There is nothing new about this thinking from times past other than the people currently being targeted as "less than American."
My husband and I are both third generation Americans whose grandparents immigrated from Europe. They, too, were treated as "less than" because they were not able to speak English well. They responded to their "shame" by never speaking nor teaching their language to their children, and the language and culture have been lost to the grandchildren.
I agree with Hal that this continued racism toward immigrants is shameful, and not worthy of what this country was meant to be.
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