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FTA: <i>&quot;And at a time when the national discourse assails the value of Spanish-speaking immigrants...&quot;</i><p>What a load.  Aside from the repellent need by the author to inject politics into a science story, it&#x27;s flat-out <i>wrong</i>: the rancor isn&#x27;t over people who (like Chang-Díaz) pursue <i>legal</i> citizenship or <i>legal</i> residency, nor is it over people who speak a particular language simply on the basis of that language.