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At VisionQuest youth agency in Philly, board chairman demands: ‘Stop speaking Spanish’

“I felt like I was at Geno’s — ‘Please speak English,’ ” case manager Carmen Pagan said, referencing the South Philadelphia cheesesteak king’s infamous “This is America” counter sign.

Carmen Pagan walked out of VisionQuest, the youth-services agency that plans to hold immigrant children in Philadelphia, after a supervisor told her colleagues not to speak Spanish.
Carmen Pagan walked out of VisionQuest, the youth-services agency that plans to hold immigrant children in Philadelphia, after a supervisor told her colleagues not to speak Spanish.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer