Indiana’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles, in response to a lawsuit filed by the state’s ACLU, will translate their driver’s manual into four additional languages.
By March of 2021, the BMV will offer the manual in Arabic, Burmese, Chin and Mandarin. This resolves a lawsuit that was filed in November of last year by the South Bend non-profit organization Neighbor To Neighbor, who focus on assistance for international refugees and other immigrants.
The ACLU claimed the failure to provide the driver’s manual in any languages other than English and Spanish.
The knowledge examination to get a driver’s license has already been offered in 14 languages.
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Let’s hope they can read the street signs. Wonder how much a lawsuit would cost the fools at the aclu should there be a fatal crash caused by someone who can’t read English and got a license.
This BMV language change is ridiculous. This is America, our official language should be ENGLISH. What ever happened to immigrants learning ENGLISH? Are we now going to have 14 different stop signs? If our legislators weren’t so afraid of not getting reelected they would stand up and make America’s official language ENGLISH and require immigrants to learn enough ENGLISH to be able to feel comfortable while living here.
If they can’t speak, write and read ENGLISH, they shouldn’t be allow to drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!