Arizona did it again! Fresh from signing a law that reinforces a federal law giving police the right to ask a person stopped by police for an unrelated matter to produce papers proving the right to be legally in the US, followed by a law banning schools from teaching minority/ethnic studies courses advocating separatism, group superiority and subversion of this country, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed
legislation affirming that nothing in state law requires businesses to provide “trained and competent” interpreters when a customer comes in speaking a language other than English. Assistant Attorney General Michael Walker said that has probably always been the law.
If it was always the law, why the need for this law? Because of a lawsuit of course. A unilingual Spanish speaking woman in Arizona was treated by a unilingual English speaking optometrist in his Arizona office. The woman’s underage 12 year old daughter offered to be the interpreter; fearing legal, insurance and medical problems if the child misunderstood the optometrist refused, asking the mother and child to return with an English speaker over 18 or alternatively, visit some Spanish speaking optometrists. Instead, the Spanish speaker, whether legally in this country or not, understood enough of this country to file a discrimination suit against the English speaking optometrist. Refusing to settle, the optometrist finally won after the Arizona Attorney General took a year to decide no laws had been broken.
But the lawsuit and the trouble it caused the optometrist, Dr. Schrolucke, pushed him to reach out to
Sen. John Huppenthal, R-Chandler, who agreed to sponsor what he called “clarifying language” to the state’s civil rights law.
“Nobody should be treated like this,” Huppenthal said. “It’s a nightmare to go through this. He was drug through the mud by us.”
Learning other languages, studying other cultures can be valuable, can be interesting but should not be a legal requirement for a person’s business. Learning the language, studying the culture of the country of residence for an immigrant should be legally required for such public activities as voting and obtaining such government documents as a driver’s license.
If the immigrant cannot or will not adapt and prefers to live in an ethnic ghetto that is the immigrant’s right. But imposing the alien culture onto this country, expecting the host culture–the US’s–to adapt to the immigrant’s culture by rule of law and suing to bring it about should be illegal.
Step by step Arizona is proving to be the little state that can!
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Did not edit my first response,but checking it after I sent it I noticed that I have misspelled a couple of words, typing too fast.
I am in complete agreement with Gov. Brewer. It is about time that our States all followed the same law. It is sad when an American goes into a place of business in this country and no one speaks english or if you are in business that you should have to comply with another culture and language. I feel that if we open our doors to LEGAL internationals to live here, then they should be the ones changing their culture and most of all their language. Go Govenor Brewer and it looks like all the States in America are going to follow suite.
doctors are not supposed to use minors or family members as interpreters.
I’m liking Arizona more and more every day.
It’s funny that Governor Jan Brewer has the biggest balls in the country. Obama could learn something from this woman.