Here in Monterey County, more than half of school-aged children speak Spanish as their primary language at home.

It saddens us that in some U.S. communities, it’s come to this:
"As some children ran down 146th Ave playing with sticks, a woman stepped out of her apartment and told them not to speak to each other in Spanish”
[for their safety / to avoid drawing attention to themselves and their families].

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