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Submitted by josephstepp on Mon, 2007-12-17 13:47.
I heard on WTOC last night that there is a push in Columbia to make English the official language of South Carolina, since its not making progress at the Federal level. I'm suprised I havent heard a buzz about this going on around here on this blog? Has anybody else heard this??
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'S.C. bill would enforce English'
'McConnell says immigrants should learn language to get government service'
By SEANNA ADCOX - The Associated Press
"The head of South Carolina’s Senate has a message he wants to send to non-English speaking immigrants looking to use government services here: No hablamos espanol.
Sen. Glenn McConnell’s proposal, among dozens of bills filed in anticipation of the coming legislative session, would require that all government paperwork and videos use only English."
The whole story: http://www.thestate.com/politics/story/260039.html
Actually, SC is already an English only state as far as official documents. The following Wikipedia site shows the states in the US that are English only. Apparently they can have translators to help fill out forms which his bill would eliminate. The map looks like the blue states in election times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-only_movement
Aren't school forms official and government run? Because when I was in school one side of a paper we had to turn in for the school's records with names and addresses and stuff was in English, and the other was in Spanish.
Aren't school forms official and government run? Because when I was in school one side of a paper we had to turn in for the school's records with names and addresses and stuff was in English, and the other was in Spanish.
Oh, oh, sounds like a SC government local division is guilty of breaking SC law.