The gentleman knows we have been looking to get bilingual and other items. The difference Is that we have been talking about voting rights. talking about citizens. and. therefore. when it comes to those areas. the particular people involved are not citizens. If they are citizens. they have already passed. in effect. a literacy test. when they got their citizenship papers. Therefore. they do not come within the problem that we spell out here. which is the question of educational deprivation. It is for that reason that. historically. those groups that came here from Europe as noncitizens did not come into this problem. because in the process of getting to be citizens they had to take a literacy test. they had to learn the language. and. therefore. once they became citizens they did not confront the problems that these groups such as Mexicans and Puerto Ricans had. That does not mean that there were not cases where there exists a problem of literacy. But talking as a group.
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Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are educationally deprived as a group compared to European immigrants.