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Article: Texas Immigrants Refute Argument That Mexican Wave Could Divide United States.
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- March 22, 2004
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By Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 22--SAN ELIZARIO, Texas -- Should the worst fears of a Harvard professor come true, this desert crossroads could be the sentimental capital of a separatist movement aiming to detach the Southwest from the United States.
In the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Samuel Huntington takes a worried look at the great waves of Mexicans who have been crossing the Rio Grande--whose riverbanks mark the outskirts of this dusty border town of 4,385, about 20 miles south of El Paso.
He fears the increasing numbers of Spanish speakers in a band of states running from ...
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