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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.

The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said.

The men, Luis Reyes, Ricardo Dominguez and Rafael Guzman-Mateo, plus a fourth defendant, Kelvin Reyes-Rosario, all needed translators when they pleaded guilty Tuesday.

"Do you think we are going to supply you with a translator all of your life?" the judge asked them.

The four, ranging in age from 17 to 22, were in a group that police said accosted two men on a street in May. The two said they were asked if they had marijuana, told to empty their pockets, struck on the head, threatened with a gun and told to stay off the block...

complete story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342312,00.html

If you live in the U.S. learn english or leave.
My car has information on the dash that got on Spanish the other day and I had to go to Chapman's to get it back on English. Mad, you bet I was. Everything that is printed in Spanish, food, ballots, directions, should be printed in English only or else every other language on earh.
This is discrimination big time.
How many Navajo, Apache, Chinese, German or French translators do we have in courts?

I wonder if the Judge ordered the police dept. to report them to I.C.E.
If they were here legally, they would have had a visas and a sponsor to be responsible for translating and obeying the laws.

a follow up to the story

Three men who got national attention when an eastern Pennsylvania judge ordered them to learn English as a condition of probation are in the process of being deported.

Rafael Guzman-Mateo, Ricardo Dominguez and Luis Reyes were among a group that committed an armed assault and robbery in Hazleton last year.

Last month, a Luzerne County judge ruled that the three could remain free on probation as long as they passed a test in English a year later, among other conditions.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Mike Gilhooly said Tuesday that the men were in the United States lawfully but that because of their convictions, they're being deported. He says they were detained Monday and will go before a judge before being sent back to the Dominican Republic

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/08/english.jail.ap/index.html