{"id":1626,"date":"2008-06-19T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2008-06-19T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T19:26:08","slug":"english-language-legislation-gathers-steam-across-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/english-language-legislation-gathers-steam-across-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"English language legislation gathers steam across the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Critics do not see progress. Some say the increase in the measures nationwide sends a hostile message to newcomers.&#8221;&#8221;It just poisons the atmosphere in local communities,&#8221; says John Trasvina, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>USA Today    <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>English language legislation gathers steam across the USA   <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>English as an official language has gained momentum as proponents keep going to the ballot box with measures that discourage bilingual ballots, notices and documents. &#8212; Thirty states now have laws specifying that official government communications be in English, says U.S. English, a group that promotes the laws&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2008-06-18-English-laws_N.htm\"> HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Critics do not see progress. Some say the increase in the measures nationwide sends a hostile message to newcomers.&#8221;&#8221;It just poisons the atmosphere in local communities,&#8221; says John Trasvina, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. USA Today English language legislation gathers steam across the USA English as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}