<h1 class="entry-title">Mr. Santorum and English-language policy in Puerto Rico</h1>
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<span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.annettevee.com/2012spring_engcmp1551/author/profvee/" title="View all posts by profvee">profvee</a></span> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="http://www.annettevee.com/2012spring_engcmp1551/2012/03/17/mr-santorum-and-english-language-policy/" title="12:00 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 17, 2012</span></a> </div>
<p>Mr. Santorum, campaigning in Puerto Rico this last week, said
that he’d love for Puerto Rico to become a state, but that they’d have
to implement an English language policy if they did.</p>
<p>Here’s a bit from the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/politics/santorum-addresses-firestorm-over-puerto-rico-remarks.html?src=recg">NY Times story</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>…if Puerto Rico opted to become a state, it would have to make English its primary language.</em></p>
<p><em>“Like any other state, there has to be compliance with this and any other federal law,” he told the newspaper El Vocero.</em></p>
<p><em>His remarks drew immediate criticism, and prompted one delegate
who had been pledged to him to quit, saying he was offended. There is no
rule in the Constitution requiring the adoption of English for the
admittance of new states, and the United States does not have an
official language.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Mr. Santorum, like many American citizens, appears to think that the US has English as an official language.</p><p><a href="http://www.annettevee.com/2012spring_engcmp1551/2012/03/17/mr-santorum-and-english-language-policy/">http://www.annettevee.com/2012spring_engcmp1551/2012/03/17/mr-santorum-and-english-language-policy/</a><br>
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