Overview

• Roughly 50 Fletes Sotelo drivers in Ciudad Juarez have begun attending four to eight hours of weekly English classes to meet U.S. proficiency standards.
• Classes launched six weeks ago under owner Manuel Sotelo, who also heads the local transport association, with a goal of basic English for all staff.
• Training follows President Trump’s March order making English the official U.S. language and an April order reversing 2016 guidance on driver inspections.
• Federal law has long required English proficiency for commercial drivers, but inspectors were barred from acting on language alone until the April directive.
• Opponents argue the renewed enforcement discriminates against multilingual workers and risks slowing cross-border logistics.