Baby Birds Chirping?
Source: NY Times
Odd isn't it how the same basic story narratives are not only recycled, but at similar times preceding certain events...
Demand for English Lessons Outstrips SupplyI took the same basic story down last year, here.
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- Two weeks after she moved here from her native Brazil, Maria de Oliveira signed up for free English classes at a squat storefront in this working-class suburb, figuring that with an associate's degree and three years as an administrative assistant, she could find a good job in America so long as she spoke the language. The woman who runs the classes at Mount Vernon's Workforce and Career Preparation Center added Ms. Oliveira's name to her pink binder, at the bottom of a 90-person waiting list that stretched across seven pages. That was in October. Ms. Oliveira, 26, finally got a seat in the class on Jan. 16. "I keep wondering how much more I'd know if I hadn't had to wait so long," she said in Portuguese.
If you're too lazy to click over? Let me quote the denouement...
We hear legion of stories regarding the legendary "can do" of the modern immigrant. If this is an example I'm most certainly not impressed.Yep, taught to suck off the gub'mint tit, though lord knows they do excel at that.
No worries though, importing socialists can only be a good thing, really!
H/T immigration news daily
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