Kinda silly in my opinion. In Ontario everything is printed in English and French even though Quebec is French speaking. Nothing wrong with Espanol
While I agree and have traveled to many places where English was treated as a second language the US becomes a little more of a problem I grew up in a primarily Vietnamese neighborhood. Many of my friends parents did not speak English. Should the street signs be printed in both languages? Or in three languages. We pride ourselves on sleds on being a melting pot… but that also brings multiple languages, cultures and traditions. Should our government conform to each or should they conform to us.
How about we have a free country where "conformity" isn't enforced by the government one way or the other? If a community wants to put up street signs in multiple languages because people in that community want them, who cares? Self-governance is our value, not legal devotion to some language.
The US should be English only. Written communication in any language other than English is a disservice to any non-English speaker trying to live in the US. Learn the language or get an interpreter. UnitedHealthcare insists on mailing notices to me. The message is less than one page but the letter is 3 pages long as the message is also presented in a dozen or more other languages.
An interesting observation, the private sector, the domain of innovation and prosperity according to some, sees fit to print its communications in multiple languages and doesnt take a hard "learn English" stance.
Do you think oligarchs buying the $5M Citizenship Card should also have to pass an English exam before getting citizenship? Or, are they exempt because they are white and rich?
Under this Trump administration the stock market is falling, unemployment is going up along with inflation, the cost of food and fuel also continues to rise, and we no longer have allies on the planet, but by gosh Trump made English the official language.
I guess when ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and lowering prices fails you can claim you renamed the Gulf and made English a language.
It is a melting pot and has served us very well, however, if you look back to the first major immigration (Italian, Irish etc.) they didn't speak the language initially either, but within a couple generations, their descendants are english speakers. I have a good friend who is Puerto Rican and he has family that went to Chicago back in the 60's and they didn't speak any english. His nephews now can't read or write in spanish and can barely speak it. One can lament that "they are losing their culture" but in the end, that is exactly what should happen over time. It's those groups that are resistant to integration that is the reason for this kind of legislation.
