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Hayakawa founded the political lobbying organization U. S. English, which is dedicated to making the English language the official language of the United States.

As a former U. S. senator in the late 1980s, he opposed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which provided for apologies and monetary reparations to persons of Japanese ancestry who were interned by the federal government during World War II.