In recent years, large numbers of immigrants have migrated to the United States from Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and other countries. In 2009, immigrants made up 12.5% ​​(38.5 million) of the total U.S. population (Batalova and Aaron par. 7). In 2011, the US Census Bureau found that 50.4% of children under the age of one were Hispanic, Black, Asian American, or other minority groups (Morello and Ted par. 2), and more than 60 millions of people who are Children aged 5 years and older spoke a language other than English at home (Camille 3). Faced with the cultural diversity brought by immigrants, many nativists fear that the United States will lose the English language as an important core of a common cultural unity. With the help of organizations like US English and ProEnglish, the English-only movement is experiencing its second resurgence since the 1980s. The English-only movement, also known as the Official English Movement, refers to a political movement whose primary goal is to ratify a constitutional amendment declaring the English language to be the sole official language in the United States government. Its policies would pervade operations at all levels of government. Once this amendment takes effect, all bilingual programs and translation services provided by federal, state, and local governments will be outlawed. Official government business will be conducted exclusively in English. This includes all public documents, records, legislation and regulations, as well as hearings, official ceremonies and public meetings ("What is Official English?" 1). The first English-only movement dates back to 1807, when Louisiana adopted English as its native language. official language in its Constitution. In 1980, Dade County, Flori... at the center of the newspaper... debate." Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology. Ed. John J. Macionis and Nijole V. Benokraitis. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2009. ProEnglish, 3 February 2014. Web. 2014. Ryan, Camille. “Language Use in the United States: 2011.” PDF file. “What is American English?” 2014.---. "Questions and Answers About Official English" American English, n.d. Web. March 16, 2014. Wiley, Terrence G. "Language Planning, Language Policy, and the English Only Movement." Language in the United States: Issues for the twenty-first century. Ed. Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 319-38. Press.