Immediate Release Contact: Phil Kent<\/p>\n
May Phone: (404) 226-3549<\/p>\n
Senate immigration bill gets an \u201cF\u201d on English and assimilation <\/strong><\/p>\n ARLINGTON, Va.\u2014\u201cThe proposed Senate immigration bill deserves an \u2018F\u2019 when it comes to defending English as the common, unifying language of our nation,\u201d said K.C. McAlpin, executive director of ProEnglish, a group that advocates for making English the official language. <\/p>\n \u201cThe most glaring omission is that the Kennedy-Kyl bill fails to make English the official language of the United States,\u201d said McAlpin. \u201cSo the Social Security Administration will continue providing interpreters in 150 foreign languages, and federal agencies will have to continue providing translations and interpreters in dozens of foreign languages. This is not the melting pot. This is a recipe for the balkanization of our nation,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Kennedy-Kyl bill would give millions of illegal aliens up to eight years to demonstrate a minimal knowledge of English. Then they would have three chances to pass the watered down English test that is part of the U.S. citizenship examination. That test requires applicants to read and write just two sentences in English,\u201d McAlpin continued. \u201cSo the claim that those who get amnesty under this bill will have to learn English is nonsense,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n A 2006 Rasmussen Reports survey found that 85 percent of Americans support making English the official language. A Harvard University survey of the nation\u2019s youth released in April showed that 72 percent of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 favor official English, including majorities of both Hispanic and Asian young people. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Administration and the Senators who are pushing for passage of this bill should be ashamed for trying to deceive the American people into believing this bill will do anything real to require immigrants to learn English and assimilate,\u201d said McAlpin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Immediate Release Contact: Phil Kent May Phone: (404) 226-3549 Senate immigration bill gets an \u201cF\u201d on English and assimilation ARLINGTON, Va.\u2014\u201cThe proposed Senate immigration bill deserves an \u2018F\u2019 when it comes to defending English as the common, unifying language of our nation,\u201d said K.C. McAlpin, executive director of ProEnglish, a group that advocates for making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}