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...particularly noteworthy” because enrollment fell 8 percent in 2004, and only increased 3 percent in 2005, according to the report. Harvard was one of the schools that saw a drop in applications from Chinese students after Sept. 11, prompting Summers to write a letter to then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ’67 protesting tightened visa policies. The drop in foreign applications to graduate programs at Harvard posed “a very serious problem for our students, for the University and, ultimately, for the United States,” Summers said at the time...
...next week's elections, Southern California is still buzzing over this year's most notorious piece of hate mail. I think that's a fair characterization. Whoever sent out an obscene letter to 14,000 Spanish-surnamed voters in Southern California's Orange County doesn't strike me as the love-thy-neighbor type...
...Written in Spanish, the letter warns: "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in incarceration and you will be deported...
...letter came from the campaign office of Republican congressional candidate Tan Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant running against Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., in the Nov. 7 election. Nguyen at first blamed a rogue but unidentified staffer who, he said, had been dismissed. Later, he offered to re-hire the staffer, saying the letter was proper. Wrong. Whoever wrote that tactless missive is clueless about the law; while it's true that illegal immigrants can't vote, legal immigrants can vote if they've become naturalized citizens...
...whether the recipient was an illegal immigrant or a U.S.-born Latino whose family had lived in California for a century. According to a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, whose office is investigating the matter to see if voter intimidation laws were violated, those who received the letter included "fourth-generation Californians...