The US President, Donald Trump, has an executive order to declare the English “official language of the United States”, a recognition that has never existed In the history of the American nation, as confirmed to EFE White House sources.
The sources They did not specify at what time the order will signbut it does not seem to be today, because in the program of the president advanced by the White House does not include the signing of executive orders.
The order will include a repeal of a Directive of the year 2000during the mandate of Bill Clinton (1993-2001), so that federal agencies facilitate services in other languages to all those with a limited domain of English, according to the CNBC chain.
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.
In 2015 and during a presidential debate, he loaded against his then Republican opponent Jeb Bush (married to a Mexican) for using Spanish on his rallies: “In this country we speak English, not Spanish”he snapped.
More recently, and during the 2024 election campaign, he referred to the question of languages to stigmatize emigrants: “We have languages that arrive in this country, without a single teacher in the entire nation that can speak that language (…) are languages that nobody in this country has heard. It is something frightening,” he said.
Source: Lasexta
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