Our Opportunity to End Multilingual Ballots Is Here

by  Congressman Steve King - June 23, 2006

The U.S. House was scheduled to take up renewal of the Voting Rights Act today - but due to the outcry of Members of Congress and citizens, the vote was delayed.

When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was originally written, minority groups were truly disenfranchised. This Act was written for a very specific purpose which it accomplished. Fifteen years after the original Voting Rights Act was written, a multilingual ballot requirement was added. Now Congress must act to end this divisive policy from continuing. 

We must unify our country instead of driving a wedge between cultures with a 25-year extension of the requirement for multilingual ballots. It would be irresponsible to renew these provisions for another generation. We must end this federal mandate which does not serve our common good.

Immigrants are required to demonstrate the ability to read and understand English to become citizens of our great nations. By offering multilingual ballots, at great expense to state and local governments, we contradict our own policy. Voters who do need language assistance are already permitted, under current law, to bring an interpreter into the voting booth. Multilingual ballots pose a significant threat to our voting rights.

Join me in my opposition to multilingual ballots by voicing your opinion to your representatives in Congress. Together we can send a message of unification and help protect the sanctity of the elections process.

Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, the Des Moines Register, the Sioux City Journal, and other publications expressing your opposition to multilingual ballots. Let's protect and preserve one of the greatest rights we have as American citizens.

One nation - one ballot.

 

Illegal immigration threatens America's future

By United States Rep. Steve King

I support an immigration reform policy designed to enhance the economic, social and cultural well-being of the United States of America. As a member of both the Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee and the Immigration Reform Caucus, I take very seriously the responsibility for crafting the immigration and naturalization policy that was delegated to Congress by our Constitution.

Legal immigrants have made, and will continue to make, valuable contributions to our nation. Assimilation is valuable to immigrants who benefit from our shared American values of respect for the rule of law, personal responsibility, a sense of a shared history, freedom and patriotism. The values shared by our civilization, founded on a heritage of western civilization, Judeo-Christianity and free-enterprise capitalism, serve immigrants and native-born alike.

However, illegal immigration poses serious safety and economic burdens on our country.  Read the complete article here.

Stopping Illegal Immigration Starts at the Worksite

by Rep. Steve King
Posted Nov 4, 2005

Attention Americans, including those in the big white house: The U.S. has an illegal immigration problem. Read the complete article here.

 

 

Center for Immigration Studies
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Immigration and National Security
Two New Reports Highlight Connection


WASHINGTON (August 2005) -- Two new reports from the Center for Immigration Studies examine the role of immigration control in our efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks on American soil. They will be released at a panel discussion on Tuesday, August 30.

The first paper, 'Immigration and Terrorism: Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff Report on Terrorist Travel,' illustrates how 94 Islamist terrorists used the immigration system to infiltrate and embed in the United States. The author is Janice L. Kephart, counsel for the 9/11 Commission and an author of the Commission staff's report on terrorist travel.

The second paper, 'Keeping Extremists Out: The History of Ideological Exclusion, and the Need for Its Revival,' is by James R,. Edwards, Jr., an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Principal at Olive, Edwards, & Brinkmann, L.L.C. It describes the contribution immigration law has made and can make again in barring and removing ideological enemies from our shores.

These papers will be released at a panel discussion at the National Press Club's Zenger Room on Tuesday, August 30, at 9:30 a.m. The panel will include:

* Frank Gaffney, Jr., President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy
* Janice Kephart, counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
* James R. Edwards, Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute, and Principal, Olive, Edwards, & Brinkmann, L.L.C.
* moderator: Steven Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies

The panel discussion is free and open to the public. The papers and the discussion transcript will be posted later at the Center's web site, http://www.cis.org/ .

For more information, contact John Keeley at (202) 466-8185 or jmk@cis.org.
 

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