Driving While Mexican

There's a new variation on the old 'driving while black' moving violation. It turns out Dallas police have been ticketing drivers for not speaking English - on at least 39 occasions during the past three years.

The case that broke the other 'not speaking English' tickets occurred when Ernestina Mondragon was "stopped for making an illegal U-turn by an officer who cited her for three violations: disregarding a traffic control device, failure to present a driver's license and "non-English speaking driver.""

I'm sure this will start up more nativist arguments about immigrants learning English. Mostly by barely-intelligible rednecks who should consider themselves lucky they weren't cited too.