Lost for words at the border

Mexican truck drivers, who work transporting cargo to the United States, attending a six-week crash course in English in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. — Meridith Kohut/The New York Times

TO Mexican companies, the rule was never much of a problem, largely ignored by US authorities along a border where cultures had always mixed.

But to the Trump administration, it became a point of critical road safety that had gone too long unaddressed.