Donald Trump wants English to be the official language of the United States and has an executive order to carry out the initiative.
It is a title that It has never existed in the history of the American nationas confirmed by the White House sources to several local media.
It is not known at what time the order will sign, but it will not be this Friday, since the firm of executive orders does not include in the President’s program.
Federal agencies will not facilitate services in other languages
The order will include, according to the CNBC chain, a repeal of a 2000 directive, during Bill Clinton’s mandate, so that Federal agencies facilitate services in other languages To all those with a limited domain of English.
However, it will not completely eliminate translation services to other languages, very useful in a country that receives thousands of immigrants annually, many of them with very limited knowledge of English.
A study published in 2022 by the Census Office (Federal) indicated that One in five Americans (68 million) spoke a language other than English In his home, although the number of those who spoke ‘only English’ had grown a lot between 1980 (187 million) and 2019 (241 million).
The Wall Street Journal, which advanced the news, said that the summary of the order specifies that the objective of the declaration of English as an official language is to promote unity in the country, Improve the efficiency of public services and facilitate a path to civil integration.
Donald Trump has already had Several hostile gestures to multilingualismamong them the elimination of the Spanish page from the official website of the White House, implemented shortly after coming to power, both in the first mandate (2017-2021) and in the second, which began on January 20.
