News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Attempt to end bilingual voting aid fails

The Associated Press
Published: 05.11.2006

What was to have been a simple renewal of the historic Voting Rights Act has become snarled in the heated debate involving immigration issues.

About 500 political subdivisions in 31 states must offer bilingual assistance. Of those states, five - Alaska, Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas - must provide the assistance statewide.

Conservative House members tried Wednesday to end a requirement in the 1965 law that bilingual ballots and interpreters be provided in states and counties where large numbers of citizens speak limited English.

The House Judiciary Committee rejected the effort.

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said voting in English should pose no problem for any U.S. citizen.

"If you are born in America, you should know English," he said. "If you are a naturalized citizen, you should have passed an English proficiency test."

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