WASILLA, Alaska (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Shortly after going public about his status as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S., Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino journalist Jose Antonio Vargas established Define American, a non-profit media and culture organization that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration and citizenship in America.

Now, former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has just launched a copycat grassroots organization she is calling Speak American. It is a movement she hopes will quickly spread throughout America that will unequivocally make American (read: U.S. English) the required and only language people  — documented and undocumented alike — speak while in the U.S. She urged netizens to start using the hashtag #SpeakAmerican.

The launch of the movement follows Palin’s recent television interview during which she stated that Spanish-speaking people should ‘speak American’ while in the U.S.  She was responding to a question regarding Donald Trump’s criticism of fellow Republican candidate Jeb Bush who spoke in fluent Spanish during one of his campaign appearances.

As she unveiled the new grassroots movement, Palin released a new video of a thirteen-year-old girl from Alaska which she says demonstrates the kind of American language skill that all young people living in the U.S. should emulate: