State DMV under attack by more foreigners who refuse to learn our language

If this story from Oklahoma doesn't frost you, you're beyond caring.

A couple who came to America from Iran thirty years ago are now suing the State of Oklahoma for refusing to give them a drivers' exam in their language--Farsi.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The federal government is investigating whether the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety violated the civil rights of Iranian immigrants by refusing to provide them with driver's license tests in their native Farsi language.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched the investigation in March after a complaint filed on behalf of two Iranian nationals living in Bartlesville accused the state agency of unlawful discrimination based on their national origin, according to a letter from the NHTSA to Public Safety Commissioner Kevin Ward.

Public safety officials said Tuesday that offering state driver's license tests in Farsi could force the state to offer tests and other state documents in a host of other languages, creating new costs and administrative burdens. The written portion of Oklahoma's test is currently provided only in English and Spanish.

"The enormity of the situation is overwhelming," said Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Chris West. Driver's license tests in multiple languages would create huge composition and printing costs and translators would have to be hired to grade the tests in each language, West said.

"It could be a huge financial burden. And very labor intensive,"
West said.

The complaint was filed on behalf of Fardha Sharifi and her husband, Alireza Sanghinmanesh, who immigrated to the United States with their young son, said Hassan Sharifi, Fardha Sharifi's cousin and a restaurant owner in Bartlesville.

He said the couple wanted to get Oklahoma driver's licenses last year but did not understand English well enough to take the Oklahoma test.

"They wanted to go to work. And I had to drive them around almost everywhere they went," said Hassan Sharifi, who immigrated to the U.S. 30 years ago. "It seemed like my life was interrupted."

He said he contacted state driver's license officials to see if the test could be provided in the couple's native language, Farsi.

"They didn't answer me," Hassan Sharifi said. "I feel bad. No one wants to take the responsibility."

Finally, the couple went to the neighboring state of Kansas, located less than 25 miles north of Bartlesville, where they each passed a Kansas exam that tested their driving skills using graphic symbols rather than language, Hassan Sharifi said.

"There was no translation needed," he said. Once they returned to Oklahoma, they exchanged their Kansas driver's licenses to Oklahoma licenses and are now both legally licensed to drive in the state, he said.

The formal complaint was filed with the government by Hassan Sharifi's son, Payam Sharifi, a senior in economics at the University of Oklahoma.

The couple, lawfully admitted to our country as guests but still not citizens, have adopted the attitude of the largely hispanic illegal alien community and are saying "Hey, we're in your country now...you owe us stuff.

Now this story has me bugged on several levels. First of all is the gall of these people to come here from their own third-world, ratbag nation and then act as if it's our responsibility to change our country so that it's more like the one that they fled. Then we get their kid--a student in one of our colleges--bringing this suit. Again, this is how we get repaid for taking in almost anyone who decides that our country is preferable to their own. Gratitude isn't part of the equation for many nor do they feel an obligation to adopt our language and culture and assimilate as generations of immigrants have traditionally done. Instead of saying "hey, I want to be an American!" they now self-segregate and bitch and moan that the rest of us aren't adopting the cultural norms of the places that they abandoned.

And then we have these people doing an edn-run around the laws of Oklahoma by going to Kansas, a state that they don't live in, getting a Kansas drivers' license without showing the required residency, and going back to Oklahoma to swap it for one from that state. Not only is that unethical and probably illegal, but we have two state bureaucracies complicit in it. No wonder the 9/11 hijackers and hordes of other illegals are so easily able to steal ID's or create fraudulent ones.

Finally, we find that Oklahoma is already providing drivers' license exams in Spanish. And why is this? Are there that many people lawfully immigrating from Mexico and points south who don't have the ability to learn our language? No. The truth is that Oklahoma, like many other states, has been overwhelmed with illegal aliens from south of the border who have no desire to learn our language because they don't give a rat's fart about becoming Americans. They hold us in contempt for having a great country with fabulous lifestyles available to any hard-working, law-abiding citizen or legal immigrant, and many have bought into the fairy tale spread by their hate-mongers that claims that we somehow "stole" their land and otherwise caused the poverty and corruption in their own countries. But they're now here in such large numbers due to our failure to police our borders and remove those found to be here illegally that they now dare make demands and issue threats if they don't get their way, to include demands for us to print our government forms in their language and teach their kids in our schools, again in their language.

And now we're seeing the next part of the downward spiral. People from other countries are becoming emboldened and making demands. They come as guests--or trespassers--then demand that the rest of us pay for changes that they desire, or else. The end result, if we don't grow a national spine and set these people firmly in their place, is that we Balkanize into a bunch of smaller ethnic factions and start having problems like the Canadians do with Quebec, or like France, Britain and Germany are having with their Muslim immigrant explosions. It's time for us to band together as Americans, and while we must never withdraw the hand of friendship and welcome to productive, hard-working legal immigrants who want to assimilate and join us as new Americans, we have to let those who come here with any other goal in mind know that they're not going to get their way and that they have two choices: Come here lawfully, adopt our culture, and become part of our community according to our rules, or get the hell back to wherever it is that you came here from.