Only in America

“An Omaha judge told a Mexican-American man that his right to see his 5-year-old daughter would be severely restricted if he insisted on speaking ‘the Hispanic language.’ Judge Ronald E. Reagan, presiding over a custody case, told Eloy Amador he could not speak ‘Hispanic’ in his daughter’s presence. ‘Are you telling me I can teach it to her but not speak it?’ Amador asked. ‘That’s right,’ Reagan said. ‘The principal form of communication…is going to be English.’ Civil-rights groups vowed legal action.”

From The Week