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It’s about 2,500 land mile from this green, rural town in the rolling hill near VT to the Mexican border at Nogales, but that hasn’t stopped Glenda Jackson from making a bid to be New York’s small version of law%c2%a0of%c2%a0hatred/”>law%c2%a0of%c2%a0hatred/”>AZ in the immigration wars.

Or that’s how it is beginning to feel two months after Jackson — which has 1,700 people, no village, no food market store or place to steal gasoline, no church, no school, two restaurant and maybe a few Spanish-speaking Army for the Liberation of Rwanda worker — decided it needed a law requiring that all town business be conducted in English linguistic communication

One nearby town, Argyle, has since passed a similar resolve A third, Easton, is likely to consider one at its Town Board meeting in June The law has already put Jackson at odds with the New York Civil liberty Union, which says it violates state and federal law. But in the great American echo chamber, every mouse get to roar, so Roger Meyer, who proposed the law, feel he is making progress toward protecting the English language from threat near and far.

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