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1. For more on driver’s license issues in Tennessee, see “Bill to Encourage More Immigrants to Take Driving Tests,” Associated Press, April 12, 2001; Paula Wade, “Vote Ok’s Driver’s Licenses for Noncitizens,” The Commercial Appeal, April 24, 2001; “Tenn. Tightens Rules on Immigrant Drivers,” Associated Press, July 20, 2002; and Lucas L. Johnson II, “Tenn. Halts Immigrant Driving Certificates,” Associated Press, February 25, 2006.
2. Samuel Huntington, “The Hispanic Challenge,” Foreign Policy, October 28, 2009. The section about the use of English among young Hispanics draws from Children of Immigration by Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) as well as these reports: Jens Manuel Krogstad, Renee Stepler and Mark Hugo Lopez, English Proficiency on the Rise among Latinos: U.S. Born Driving Language Changes (Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, May 12, 2015), http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/05/12/english-proficiency-on-the-rise-among-latinos/. See also David Folkenflik, “The Next Frontier in TV: English News for Latinos,” NPR, August 15, 2012, http://www.npr.org/2012/08/15/158763308/the-next-frontier-in-tv-english-news-for-latinos (accessed December 2, 2015). Ravi Somaiya and Brooks Barnes, “Fusion Aims at Millennials, but Struggles with Its Identity,” The New York Times, May 25, 2015.
3. Maki Park and Margie McHugh, Immigrant Parents and Early Childhood Programs: Addressing Barriers of Literacy, Culture and Systems Knowledge (Migration Policy Institute, June 2014). http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigrant-parents-early-childhood-programs-barriers