Bill Schubart: Language, fear and leadership

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a former board member of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR.
Without notice or comment, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently removed from its mission statement a century-old introductory phrase … “America’s promise as a nation of immigrants …”
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