Translator Companies Serving to Unlawful Aliens to Cheat on Drivers Examination

A person who not too long ago stop his job on the Maine Bureau of Motor Autos (BMV) says that translator companies are serving to unlawful aliens cheat to get state driver’s licenses regardless of an absence of English proficiency or understanding the foundations of the street, and with out even taking a street check.

John Morin, who labored for the BMV as a license examiner for greater than a decade, mentioned that he watched as translating companies helped migrants cheat on driver’s exams by immediately offering the migrants with the solutions to the checks, not simply providing to assist them perceive the questions throughout their examination, Maine Wire’s Steve Robinson reported.

“I needed to stop that job due to all the dishonest happening with individuals from abroad that was occurring frequently. I’d witness as much as 10 or 12 Class C permits a day being issued by us,” mentioned Morin, who labored for the BMV from 2013 to 2024.

Morin famous that migrants utilizing translators handed their checks at a one hundred pc fee, in comparison with the one 70 % cross fee of English-speaking drivers. Migrants, Morin says, are shopping for licenses, not translation companies.

The previous DMV worker additionally says that he repeatedly alerted his bosses to the dishonest schemes, however his bosses ignored the warnings. In reality, he says he was punished for elevating the issues.

“I wrote him up and despatched a referral for prison prosecution to our detectives at BMV, and I used to be written up for writing him up,” Morin mentioned. “This was after many, many makes an attempt by me to scrub up the dishonest over the course of my time at BMV.”