Brian Bilbray: “From many, one''. It does not say, ``From many, more''. It says that we may have diversity, but we have to have a common…”

“From many, one''. It does not say, ``From many, more''. It says that we may have diversity, but we have to have a common ground, a common language, that meeting place. Now anyone who feels that that is some kind of antiquated idea, all we have to do is go look to our friends to the north and look at the strife in Canada caused by people who are divided based on the languages they use because they do not have the common bond that we have practiced for so long in America and which has created the cherished experience we call the American way of life. Mr. Chairman, I just wonder why people hide behind a term like ``multiculturalism'' when they do not want to admit what it really means. I live on the Mexican border. I live in an environment where I see people speak different languages. But I also see what happens to people when they do not have that common language of English to be able to move them up. Mr. Chairman, I see those that are deprived of equal access to economic opportunity and those who would do that for political gain. Now, I want to present into the Record a grand jury report done about a school district in my county that verified there was a conscious effort done in the name of multiculturalism to make sure that the children in that school district did not learn English, did not have access to the common language. Mr.…”