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‘Get off the stage!’ Crowd yells at commencement speaker after she uses Spanish, mentions Trump
Washington Post ^ | May 24, 2016 | Susan Svrluga

Posted on 05/25/2016 6:16:13 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Some people in the crowd at a graduation ceremony at California State University, Fullerton, shouted at the commencement speaker after she talked about presidential candidate Donald Trump and gave a brief section of her address in Spanish.

“It’s really sad,” the commencement speaker, Maria Elena Salinas, an anchor for Spanish language broadcast network Univision, said Tuesday. “And it’s a testament to what has happened in our country. Our country is really divided.”

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To: stormer

At the federal level, the United States has no official language, but 27 U.S. states and all inhabited U.S. territories, excluding Puerto Rico have designated English the official language and courts have found that residents do not have a right to government services in their preferred language.

Dec 26, 2015 - Proposition 63 declared that English is the official language of the State of California. It directed the California State Legislature to enact legislation to “preserve the role of English as the state’s common language.” HEH HEH


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