Sunday, July 28, 2002
Bilingual Services as Ethic Patronage
"Betty Getubig, a Filipino immigrant who lives in Santa Clara, speaks fluent English and has voted in English without difficulty. But on Friday, she celebrated the news that Santa Clara County will provide ballots in her native language, Tagalog. "It's comforting to vote in your own language,' she said in Tagalog. 'I'm very, very pleased and I know a lot of other Filipinos will feel the same way,''' "Counties told to add languages to ballots," San Jose Mercury News, July 27th.
Note that this woman is insisting that taxpayers provide a translation for a document she can read perfectly well in English. Thanks to Clinton Executive Order 13166, which made translation services a virtually unlimited entitlement, this is going to happen in many more places.
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