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A man who recently quit his job at the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) says that translator services are helping illegal aliens cheat to get state driver’s licenses despite a lack of English proficiency or understanding the rules of the road, and without even taking a road test.
John Morin, who worked for the BMV as a license examiner for more than a decade, said that he watched as translating services helped migrants cheat on driver’s exams by directly providing the migrants with the answers to the tests, not just offering to help them understand the questions during their exam, Maine Wire’s Steve Robinson reported.
“I had to quit that job because of all of the cheating going on with people from overseas that was happening regularly. I would witness up to 10 or 12 Class C permits a day being issued by us,” said Morin, who worked for the BMV from 2013 to 2024.
Morin noted that migrants using translators passed their tests at a 100 percent rate, compared to the only 70 percent pass rate of English-speaking drivers. Migrants, Morin says, are buying licenses, not translation services.
The former DMV employee also says that he repeatedly alerted his bosses to the cheating schemes, but his bosses ignored the warnings. In fact, he says he was punished for raising the concerns.
“I wrote him up and sent a referral for criminal prosecution to our detectives at BMV, and I was written up for writing him up,” Morin said. “This was after many, many attempts by me to clean up the cheating over the course of my time at BMV.” --->READ MORE HERE
A former Bureau of Motor Vehicle employee alleges that foreign language translators are systematically cheating drivers license exams by providing non-English-speaking 'New Mainers' with test answers
Foreign language translators are systematically cheating Maine driving exams so non-citizens who don’t speak English can get their driver’s licenses without learning the rules of the road — or even demonstrating basic driving ability.
That’s what a longtime former Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) employee told lawmakers and media at the State House on Wednesday during a meeting of the Government Oversight Committee.
John Morin, who worked at the BMV as a license examiner for more than ten years from 2013 to April 2024, said he’s witnessed coordinated and systemic test cheating by non-English-speaking test-takers and their translators, a ruse that has resulted in test-takers with translators passing 100 percent of their exams, as compared to 70 percent for the English-speaking population.
“I had to quit that job because of all of the cheating going on with people from overseas that was happening regularly. I would witness up to 10 or 12 Class C permits a day being issued by us,” Morin told The Robinson Report.
The scheme is simple: a non-English-speaking resident who wants a driver’s license hires a translator who supplies them with the answers, not just translation assistance.
The result is that non-English-speaking applicants are paying the translators for a passing grade, not assistance with a language they don’t speak.
For test-takers who are above the age of 21, this can result in immigrants getting Maine driver’s licenses without ever proving that they can actually drive a motor vehicle, as the driving portion of the exam — the road test — is not required for older applicants. --->READ MORE HERE
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