Today's immigrants do not need oppressive English-only laws to recognize the importance of learning English.

(AmazonCrossing) is experimental in format and radical in its defiance of English-only laws, ethnic cleansing campaigns, and the corporate censorship.

The controversy echoes the national debate over English-only laws in the United States, a debate prompted by a growing population of Spanish-speaking immigrants.

In the book, intellectuals and artists debate English-only laws, ethnic cleansing campaigns, and the corporate censorship.

This study shows that other languages do not threaten the dominance of English, and thus English-only laws are unnecessary.

The organization fights against English-only laws, which aim to penalize New Yorkers who do not speak English fluently.

Arizona's English-only law is the first to be overturned in court since the 1920's.

Before the state adopted an English-only law in 1990, Alabama offered driving exams in 14 languages.

Still, most of the laws across the country are more political than legal, said James Crawford, an expert on English-only laws and bilingual education.

Most of the states' English-only laws are blandly symbolic or, like Arizona's, so broad that they appear unworkable.