Immigration Bill Would Prohibit English as the Official Language

Excerpts from article concerning the Bush/Kennedy immigration bill (written after it collapsed the first time) by Eagle Forum. Title of Article "Americans Want English As Our Official Language

"Section 702(b) would have forbidden the government to "diminish" any existing rights under U.S. "laws" that concern services or materials provided by the government "in any language other than English." This section was given extraordinary scope by Section 702(c), which defined the word "laws" to include "Presidential Executive Orders."

"A good example of the effect of NOT legislating English as our official language can be seen in the June 22 release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture about the school lunch program. I quote verbatim:

""Please be advised that we have finalized the process of translating the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Application package into 25 different languages . . . Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese (Mandarin), Farsi, French, Greek, Haitian, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese."

"Ergo, all applicants for the new Z visa could apply in any language of their choice. Applicants would even be provided with tax-paid attorneys to demand their Z visas and challenge any rejection.

For the rest of this article by Eagle Forum to see how all the Presidential candidates, Democrats and Republicans, responded when asked if they believed English should be the official language of the United States, see this link: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2007/june07/07-06-20.html Title of article is "Americans Want English As Our Official Language"