OOOPS (minor update)
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — States throughout the U.S. have revoked driving privileges for 5,500 commercial truck drivers who failed basic English assessments while working north of the border, according to Israel Delgado Vallejo, vice president of Mexico’s Northwest Chamber of Freight Transporters.
“So far, we’ve registered 5,500 out of service and suspended licenses, we are seeing harder and more stringent enforcement,” Delgado Vallejo said.
Six months ago, President Trump issued an executive order reinstituting an existing law that mandates commercial truck drivers must speak and understand enough English to read road signs and interact with law enforcement.
“Eighty-thousand people work as truck drivers moving freight and other products along the border between Mexico and the United States, about 80 percent of them don’t speak English.”
Recently, the U.S. Department of Transportation warned states such as California, Washington and New Mexico to enforce the English-speaking mandate.
DOT is threatening to take away federal transportation funds from states that don’t comply and implement the language assessments and penalties for drivers who fail the tests.
(Sneef to taste Gavin Newsom)
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YOU MEAN THAT THEY LIED?
Say it isn't so …
Even as aid continues to flow into Gaza following President Donald Trump's ceasefire deal, one expert is questioning the veracity of claims by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) that famine conditions took hold in Gaza this summer — and the organizational ties of the agency.
"What makes famine different from just hunger or deprivation is that it’s lethal," David Adesnik, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital.
“Using the IPC definition — that famine claims two lives per day per 10,000 people — the famine in Gaza directorate should by now have resulted in about 9,000 deaths from hunger or hunger-related disease," he explained. "They didn’t have data showing that mortality rate had been reached.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gaza-famine-claims-face-mounting-100009207.html
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