Sadly. we have received no response from this White House. I have. however. raised the matter when the opportunity presented itself with the Secretary of Commerce and the Attorney General and both have assured me that the Bush administration will continue to adhere to the outreach efforts of the Clinton Executive order. I understand why those efforts to amend the immigration bill to make English the official or national language provoked a reaction and seemed meanspirited to so many. It elicited the extraordinary May 19 letter from the League of United Latin American Citizens. the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Educational Fund. the National Council of La Raza and the National Puerto Rican Coalition and from a larger coalition of interested parties from 96 national and local organizations. Until that vote. in our previous 230 years we had not found it necessary or wise to adopt English as our official or national language.
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