Trump Signs Order to Designate English as Official Language of the U.S.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The executive order rescinds a Clinton-era mandate that required agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, but allows agencies to keep current policies and provide documents and services in other languages.
34% : "We see exactly what Trump is trying to do by continuing to put a target on the backs of Black and brown immigrants and communities who speak different languages, and we won't tolerate it." News of the planned order also brought resistance from the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, where 94% of residents speak Spanish.
33% : "This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish," Trump said.

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