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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
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Does that mean that all English-language ads are placed by landlords who only want English speakers?
Wrong again. The Mission is full of Spanish-language ads and signage. Ditto Chinese in Chinatown, Vietnamese in Little Saigon, Russian in the Richmond…
I never said they didn’t exist.
So many logical fallacies in this comment drop your IQ score to around 50.
You never miss a chance to gratuitously race bait, Mr. I’m Never The First (to point out the spics).
Is there an English proficiency test for legal alien residency?
I never claimed there was a language requirement for legal alien residency, in the same way as there is a de facto language requirement for naturalization. That was your tangential attempt to hijack the topic.
That said, it is difficult to see how an alien could get something like a green card or H1 visa, based on employment, without proficiency in English simply because they would find it hard to get a job here in the first place.
That just leaves illegals, who work in kitchens, construction sites, farms, sweatshops etc run by others of their ethnicity. and those who gain entry to the US on family or humanitarian visa’s.
An ad that is written in a language other than English is effectively trying to restrict the pool of applicants to a specific ethnicity. In this case. I’d go further and guess they want illegals.
Can you source the language requirement for legal alien residency or are you just pulling that out of your big fat ass as usual?