Learn It Or Don’t Bother

Immigration, Trumpism

Oh boo-hoo-hoo.  In his latest oh-so-Hitler initiative, POTUS Trump has caused massive heartache to immigrants:

In keeping with his March 1 order making English the official language of the United States, the president has directed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to cancel a contract with a translation service provider, according to Government Executive magazine.

The translation service was offered to migrants calling the department for information about their status under E-Verify and other government programs.

The administration is also now directing agency call center employees to terminate any call from a caller who can’t make his needs known in English.

Yup:  as in most countries, if you don’t speak the country’s official language, you’re screwed.

Here’s the real deal.  The article linked above talks about audio translation services.  What is not discussed is the paper (and processing) cost of providing documentation to would-be immigrants — in multiple languages.

It’s complete bollocks.  Nothing screams inefficiency like having to do everything twice — or more times — which in essence is what’s being ended here.

As I’ve said countless times before, if you’re going to move to a foreign country, learn to speak its fucking home language before embarking on the journey.  Nothing is more irritating than having to deal with people from another country who insist that you speak their language in dealing with them.  It’s nothing less than a divisive and arrogant attitude, coming from people who have no right to be so in their adopted country.

As an immigrant, you’re here on sufferance, not entitlement.  And the sooner the huddled masses learn that lesson, the easier it will be for them in the long term.  Fit in or fuck off.

7 comments

  1. Good! maybe keep enough translation services in place to get the immigrant’s name, address description etc then send ICE to pick them up to uber their ass out of the country.

  2. When I moved to Germany in 1974 I bought 2 books dealing with translations – and spent considerable time learning them because it was uncomfortable to struggle with the language. Many of us soldiers practiced conversational German on our own time. Same with reading and writing it.

    It takes massive gall for anyone to ASSume the guest country has an obligation to them.

    It’s downright infuriating when I go to the ATM the first thing I have to do is choose mexican or english.

  3. I think Trump missed a chance to troll the lefties here, especially that commie swine Queir Starmer.

    He should have declared the AMERICAN language to be the official language of America.

  4. I recall something about a Carter-sponsored Paperwork Reduction Act, yet I receive at least four pages a month from Medicare and my private insurance statements telling me, in dozens of languages, how to appeal the statements. Then there’s the IRS and their forms where you write two numbers on a whole page and………..ah, fuck it.
    That’s what is in my direct consciousness, but then I really get gobsmacked when I think “Some asshole had to sit and write this stuff, and he does this every day for a living.” He must be great fun at a party and makes his pocket money as an extra playing Nazi and Soviet bureaucrats for movies.

  5. If this attempt at reducing the power of government is the action of Hitler, just how did Hitler get the power to send so many people to the gas chambers in a mere four years?

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