They do not come from the rank and file of Mexican American or Cuban American or Puerto Rican citizens. Indeed. my constituency mail has run heavily in favor of the English language amendment. Much of it comes from immigrants who had to learn English on the job or at night school. One Mexican American tells me that his parents. also immigrants. would punish him for speaking Spanish at home. despite the fact that they. too. were beginning students of English. Indeed. the strongest support for my amendment has been expressed to me in letters written in imperfect English. by immigrants who had to learn the language as adults. The most emphatic support I have had was from a Chinese gentleman whose English I could only partly understand. He was one of a delegation of four in San Franciscos Chinatown who came to tell me of support for my amendment.
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