President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Friday to make English the official U.S. language.
The order will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in language other than English, according to a fact sheet about the impending order.
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The Wall Street Journal first reported the move Friday.
The U.S. has never had an official language at the federal level.It was not immediately clear when on Friday that Trump planned to sign the order.
His executive order will rescind a mandate from former President Bill Clinton that required the government and organizations that received federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
Designating English as the national language “promotes unity, establishes efficiency in government operations, and creates a pathway for civic engagement,” according to the White House, The Associated Press reports.
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More than 30 states have passed laws making English as their official language, AP reports, citing U.S. English, a group that advocates for English as the nation's official language.
Trump over the years has raised concerns about the difficulty presented by immigrants in the U.S. who don't speak English.
"We have languages coming into our country, we don’t have one instructor in our entire nation that can speak that language," Trump said last year, the Joural noted. "These are languages—it’s the craziest thing—they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a very horrible thing."In a 2015 presidential debate, Trump criticized former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail. "This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish," Trump said, the Journal notes.
The use of Spanish in public life has sparked controversy over the years, including in Texas, where a state senator in 2011 demanded that an immigrant rights activist speak in English rather than in his native Spanish at a legislative hearing.
That rekindled a decades-old debate over whether it is proper to speak Spanish in Texas, which was once a part of Mexico and, before that, a part of the Spanish Empire.
The issue has been painful for many older Mexican-American Texans who recall being punished for speaking Spanish in school in the 1950s.
This report contains material from Reuters and The Associated Press.
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