I agree with Tony Blair. If you can't read or write English, you should not be given the PRIVILEGE of citizenship until you learn! This bending over backwards in the name of "multi-culturalism" has gone too far.
What idiot wrote this law...and by what mechanism exactly could this occur? Oh I forgot...osmosis!
OK< then it's time to repeal Section 203 of the Voting Rights act.
Hello GOP Congress...are you there?
driber licen....?
no hablo engle...
could deport a person for "fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs or justifying or validating such violence"; "condoning or glorying terrorism"
- This is all good and safe now, but defining what terrorism is is up to the ruling party and it may not take much for a ruling party to eye its opposition and label it as terrorism. For the U.S. it would only take another Madaline Albright (shudder)to attack the conservatives
Go to a Woodman's grocery store (east or west side Madison) on a Fri afternoon...
Hang around the vegetable section and listen to the beautiful rainbow cacophony of languages spoken..
It will drive you right out of your gourd (or melon)
imo
Its even odd that the article had to explain that requiring English comprehension 'is not bigotry'. Its no more bigoted than requiring that if you bring your electronic appliances to the US, that they run on 115VAC at 60HZ or that your TV comply with the NTSC standard.
Perhaps the learning of english can be one of those things that the sponsors of people with permanent resident visas can pledge to help the visa holder with...
But Blair wants to impose an additional requirement: To become a British citizen, one must "have a rudimentary grasp of the English language."
Excellent move. Long overdue. Should be a requirement in the U.S.