Senate has spoken out very strongly in favor of establishing English as the official language. On August 13. 1982. Senator Hayakawa introduced an amendment to the Immigration Reform and Control Act declaring that "the English language is the official language of the United States". On a rollcall vote 78 Senators voted for this amendment and it was included in the bill. When this same bill was again reported out of the Judiciary Committee on April 21. 1983 it again contained this language. and the report of the full committee stated: If immigration is continued at a high level. yet a substantial portion of these new persons and their descendants do not assimilate into the society. they have the potential to create in America a measure of the same social. political. and economic problems which exist in the countries from which they have chosen to depart. Furthermore. if language and cultural separatism rise above a certain level. the unity and political stability of the nation willin timebe seriously diminished. Pluralism. within a united American nation. has been the single greatest strength of this country.
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Immigrants who do not assimilate will create social, political, and economic problems.