Democrats Rejects Making English Official Language

The Border Line reports:

Nearly all Democratic presidential hopefuls reject making English the nation’s official language. At a debate Sunday night, only Mike Gavel, a former senator from Alaska, raised his hand in support of such a measure.

“Yeah. We speak English. That doesn’t mean we can’t encourage other languages. I speak French and English. People speak Spanish and English. But the official language of the United States of America is English,” Gavel said.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said that making English the nation’s official language could have negative consequences.

“That means in a place like New York City you can’t print ballots in any other language. That means you can’t have government pay for translators in hospitals so when somebody comes in with some sort of emergency there’s nobody there to help translate what their problem is for the doctor,” she said.

Imagine that.