How one small Midwest town has turned immigration into positive change
In parts of the Midwest, floods of immigrants [Can recall when it was taboo for immigration reform patriots to use the term "flood" because you would be accused of 'racism,' but now even celebrants of White demographic genocide, like the Christian Science Monitor, merrily use the term.] are reshaping the culture. The influx is presenting challenges, but some towns have made strides toward striking a balance between old and new.
It’s Thursday morning, and in one classroom fifth-graders cluster in small groups, studying mathematics. Only today it’s matematicas, and everyone is speaking Spanish.
Ten-year-old Joshua Perez stares at a whiteboard, confronting the mysteries of place value. One classmate, a girl with long brown hair and a stern gaze, points to a row of numbers and empty boxes.
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Here at West Liberty Elementary School, mathematics is about more than numbers and shapes. It’s a blending of two languages, two cultures, and two very different groups of people that have come to inhabit this small town in rural Iowa. Like scores of rural communities across the Midwest and Great Plains, West Liberty has been transformed in the past several decades by an influx of newcomers, most of them Latinos who came to work in the big turkey processing plant that sits just beyond the downtown.
When did Iowans or any Americans ever get to vote on being "transformed"? Yes, a lot of the immigration and refugee "flood" scam is due to corporate meat fat cats successfully bribing politicians into getting them tons of cheap compliant labor. ...
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