English as the official language

English as the official language

As far as I know the official language of the United States is ENGLISH. (defacto)

I am astounded at how far our government and various Utility companies and others have distorted and resorted to abolish/modify English as our language.

When I contact various companies and utilities, I am given a choice to punch a button for English or Spanish.

English should not be a choice, it should be mandatory.

In some stores you cannot even find literature in English, only in Spanish.

Any company/Organization who does not default to English automatically should be boy cut from doing business with.

Any one who wants to live in this country legally and benefit (any benefit whatsoever) from our system, must speak, read and write English or be deported.

When you travel around the world, no country has subrogated their language to any other foreign language, why should we.

We should demand from our government – Federal, State, and County and any local governments and agencies throughout the United States to implement that strategy or be thrown out of office

Jay 1-21-2008

"The Committee to maintain English as our official language"

The English language shall be the official language of the United States. As the official language, the English language shall be used for all public acts including every order, resolution, vote, or election, and for all records and judicial proceedings of the Government of the United States and the governments of the several States.
Also introduced in the 107th Congress was this text from H.R. 3333:
The Government of the United States shall preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the United States of America. Unless specifically stated in applicable law, no person has a right, entitlement, or claim to have the Government of the United States or any of its officials or representatives act, communicate, perform or provide services, or provide materials in any language other than English. If exceptions are made, that does not create a legal entitlement to additional services in that language or any language other than English.
President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "We have one language here, and that is the English language, and we intend to see that the [assimilation] crucible turns our people out as Americans."
     Today America's linguistic unity, which enabled the melting-pot crucible to forge one nation out of millions of immigrants from all over the world, is under attack as never before. Record numbers of non-English speaking immigrants threaten to overwhelm the assimilative process. And instead of encouraging new immigrants to acquire the English fluency needed to succeed in our society, the policy of our government is to promote "diversity" by operating in ever growing numbers of foreign languages.
Learning to speak English empowers immigrants. By more than 2-1 immigrants themselves say the U.S. should expect new immigrants to learn English (1) and by a 9-1 margin Hispanic immigrants believe learning English is essential to succeed in the U.S. (2)

No to "Georgiafornia!"

Our use of the term "Georgiafornia" is intended to point out that by allowing our elected officials, criminal employers, and the illegal alien lobby to continue to ignore - and violate - the laws that are designed to protect and secure American citizens in Georgia, we are on a path that could lead to the same chaos that has befallen the once wealthy and desirable state of California.

Who Killed California?

"First, open borders. By failing to enforce our immigration laws, America now hosts 31 million legal immigrants and their children and 10 million illegals, most of them net tax consumers. California got the lion's share."

- Patrick J. Buchanan, 2003
  (Read the entire column)

For those of us who recall the Georgia of only a decade ago, it is not difficult to recognize the warning signs that we are becoming a less livable state.
The financial costs to Georgia taxpayers of supplying (bilingual) education, incarceration, medical care and social benefits to the hundreds of thousands of people who are here in violation of our laws is becoming impossible to ignore.
The tragic story of the death of Dustin Inman and many others serves to illustrate the human cost to Georgia families.
Since the horror of 9/11, we have actually seen an enormous increase in un-inspected, illegal immigration into Georgia.
Real immigrants join the American family according to American law - and are welcomed.
Many would have us believe that we cannot survive and flourish without illegal labor. Many would have us believe that there are "jobs Americans will not do".
We know that Americans have always been willing to work in America, and that there are only wages on which Americans cannot live with dignity in their own country. Constantly putting forth the absurd notion that Georgians are lazy does not make it true.
Someone please point to a case of wages in Georgia having gone up because of illegal immigration!
What would our Grandfathers' say about the fact that English is now an optional language in Georgia?
In September 2003, about 200 illegal aliens gathered on the steps of the Georgia Capitol and defiantly demanded Georgia driver's licenses, the rights of citizens and...amnesty.
In a repeat of those demands, in September 2004, their number had grown to more than one thousand.
There were no apprehensions or arrests at either gathering.
See our 1000 Words page of photos if you were not one of the band of Georgians who took time to protest these and other examples of the path to Georgiafornia.
Resistance is not futile, and we believe that we have a duty to protect our children's Georgia. Please help save our state.
We will continually catalog the cost of illegal immigration to the Georgia taxpayers.
We invite your input and comments and with your permission, will post some of them on our feedback page.