Posted on 10/26/2009 9:34:08 AM PDT by Menehune56
Ernestina Mondragon blinked in the glare of TV lights, seated for her news conference among family and friends at a table in the back of Tejano Mexican Restaurant at Davis and Beckley in north Oak Cliff on Sunday afternoon. Speaking Spanish translated by her daughter, Brenda, and her lawyer, Domingo Garcia, she said she was humiliated Oct. 2 when a Dallas police officer pulled her over for an illegal U-turn and then wrote her a ticket for driving without being able to speak English. "I felt I'd been looked down on and discriminated against," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
If you do not carry ID on you and do not obey the rules and do not understand the language, you can expect to have problems when someone asks you why you did not obey traffic rules or even to exchange information in an accident.
medical expenses for what?
Is she legal?
The newspaper of course doesn’t know what the words legal or illegal mean.
She should feel humiliated for not having learned English.
exactly
Domingo Garica is the biggest bigot around and he coached the woman, in spanish, to be “ humiliated”
She is pretty typical and all these millions give lie to the theory that immigrants learn English, right away, by second generation for sure.
It is possible to go through 9th grade with all classes in spanish.
Then people whine that we “ failed” because these kids haven’t learned English.
We lost the opportunity to make English our official language and we will regret it
Now she speaks English?
“I felt I’d been looked down on and discriminated against,” she said.
Oh, she’s been trained well. Very well. Who knew a “U” is as good as playing the lottery?
It used to be that “humiliation”, ie, being humbled,
was the result of a righteous rebuke. If the rebuke wasn’t valid, then there’s no reason to be “humiliated”.
Also, the action following such humiliation, or humbling, was to change the reason you were rebuked, ie, LEARN ENGLISH.
The Dallas PD screwed up and will probably have to cough up some cash. They have dismissed the No English charge as that charge isn’t available by law, and I think they waived or dismissed the driver license charge when she produced hers. I heard a clip this morning of this interview and her attorney said she was a citizen. That I can’t verify.
Dallas PD has written 39 of these citations over the past 3 yrs and will go back and dismiss them and refund any monies collected.
Detain them pending the arrival of an official translator and charge them an extra thousand dollars as a special services fee. Add it to the ticket amount.
Reminds me of the Eddie Murphy sketch of going and finding some African woman riding on a zebra and marrying her,
only to have her find out about getting half in a divorce.
She SHOULD feel humiliated if she’s so stupid that she can’t speak the language after being in the country for 30 years. Idiot!
“EDDDIEEEEEE, I WANT TO TALK TO YOOOOOOOOOOO!”
“What have you done for me lately.....HALF!”
LOL, no wonder he likes the trannies.
I heard only “commercial drivers” must have a command of the English language. It is why the option appeared on the officers computer screen as a ticketing option.
“No English charge as that charge isn’t available by law”
I heard from my former DPD son-in-law that commercial drivers DO have to speak English and can get a ticket for it when stopped for something else.
30 years in the country and doesn’t speak the language - That wouldn’t be tolerated in europe.
I think getting a ticket for not speaking english, sounds petty to me.
I was never pulled over, but I have rented cars in Italy and Greece, with an international driver’s license. I don’t speak greek and my Italian is barely passable.
Is it not enough that we are becoming a nation of crybabies, that we are having crybabies immigrate as well?
Hey lady - since you’re so “humiliated” get your illegal butt back to your home nation. (And you MUST be illegal, since you’d know rudimentary English had you been naturalized in the proper fashion.)
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