A recent news article made a great case for people wishing to reside in America to be caused to learn English in a specific period. A Liberian(not to be confused with a Librarian)man who had been a resident in America for an extended period BEFORE he was jailed on charges of molestation and sexual assault was released and had all charges against him dropped because the court could not find an interpreter who spoke Vai, a language spoken by fewer than one hundred thousand people on earth, to help him talk to his attorney and the court. He had lived here for over a year when the alleged assaults took place and he was held for two years until they finally found an interpreter, who was able to immediately inform his clinet that his sixth amendment rights had been violated, which as a non American, he technically has no rights to.

So the guy was here for a little over three years all told, two of them in jail where lack of communication can easily get one killed or injured and he never learned the language? Not even enough to understand what kind of trouble he was in? I don't buy it. Had he been Mexican or Indian there would be others in the slammer he could communicate in his native tongue, but Vai? No, he had to have learned a working vocabulary to survive in such an environment. He played our system against us and he knows it and we know it and the judge probably even knew it, but some interpretations of our laws have become so liberal and vague that it makes it easy to manipulate the system in just about any case. People do it in other ways when accused of crimes, but this just sends the message to criminals, especially foreign criminals, that get away with a crime just by not speaking english, the language on which our courts operate. Try that in Liberia(pardon the pun).

Once again a non American has been granted rights that would never be afforded to a natural, or naturalized citizen. There is no ignorance of such magnitude that would sway any judge to the decision reached in this case. The court should have held him until such a time as he could speak the language well enough to understand what was going on or they should have deported him immediately. But now we have the possibility of having another dangerous person roaming the streets of our neighborhoods with the firm knowledge that all he has to do is act like a foreign moron to get away with another crime with no fear of the system. Maybe the family of his next victims will exact their own revenge. I know I would.