Mayor of Massachusetts City Needs a Translator During Hearing Due to Apparent Inability to Speak English

Mass migration has caused one city in Massachusetts to resemble a foreign nation, as even its own mayor seems unable to speak or understand a word of English.

As The Eagle-Tribune reported, Lawrence Mayor Brian DePena testified earlier this month during a hearing in support of former acting police chief William Castro’s appeal against revoked credentials from a 2024 traffic incident.

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Video has now emerged showing that DePena demanded a translator during the hearing because his English is so pathetic. {snip}

The mayor of Lawrence, MA, a once prominent manufacturing town that is now overwhelmingly Hispanic, needs a translator in court.

The judge refused to let him use the translator due to possible mistranslations

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DePena was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He immigrated to New York in the early 1980s {snip}

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Lawrence is a city with approximately 89,000 residents. Over 80% are Hispanic.

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