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Court Interpreter Breaks Confidentiality Code to Speak Out for Workers Rounded Up in Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History

On May 12th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 400 workers at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa in the largest immigration raid in US history. Many were sent to prison. We speak with Erik Camayd-Freixas, a professor and Spanish-language court interpreter who was flown into Iowa for the trial. He broke the code of confidentiality among legal interpreters to describe the workers' predicament in what he calls "the saddest procession I have ever witnessed." He says most of the workers were peasants from Guatemala and did not fully understand the criminal charges they were facing. He also says that court-appointed lawyers had little time to meet with the workers, many of whom ended up waiving their rights. [includes rush transcript]

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[tutravieso10]

THERE IS A GLASSY TO OVER HIS FACES.

[ubuibiok]

CookiesforChrist-keep your cookies send cash.

The only people profiting are the people paying slave wages....my property taxes just went up 300 over last year and I'm on SS.

You can send your check to MiamiDade County in Florida, Pay to the order of Home Owner Tax Relief Fund.

Federal records, nation wide for all school districts, state educate records indicate an estimated 1.8 million undocumented children. At an average cost of $7,500 per student, that amounts to $11.2 billion a year.

[cookiesforchrist]

ubuibiok. i'm sick of you telling the same story. Do you not realize that they are helping our economy out as well? Every saturday there is a steady stream of immigrants driving to Decorah (where the nearest walmart and other stores are) to do their shopping. Trust me, they go right past my house. They get their paycheck, they need to buy stuff for their family. It works both ways. You are completely ignorant and it is people like you that are making this world into the hate-filled place it is.

[ubuibiok]

no, your missing the point, they do not belong here at ...An illegal align here in Miami Hosp in a coma for a car accident 3 years ago just requested assistance from the state of Florida to pays his Medical bill from "Just 2007" of 1.4 million...They tried and were willing to pay the Mexican Government 30,000 to take him back and the Mexican Government refused, they are trying now to get INS to Pay the Bill....There illeagle activity is costing the US Tax payers Billions Nation wide

[herviews]

You are missing the point. The World Bank and the IMF have stripped these countries of the wealth that they could have used for their own top notch health services. The US taxpayers are just now paying for these dishonest banking policies. If we remain ignorant or unconcerned about the real foreign policies of the US then we will continue to make uninformed statements regarding illegal immigrants. They are just following the wealth that was removed from their countries.

[edaddy4]

That one case in Miami is becoming so famous now. People hardly talk about how much taxes they pay INTO the system. Actually the state of Texas recently reported a STRONG POSITIVE tax contribution. To talk about the singular Miami hospital case is very very unbalanced.

[ubuibiok]

"Despicable", You have no Clue...An illegal align here in Miami Hospital in a coma for a car accident 3 years ago. The hospital just requested assistance from the state of Florida to pays his Medical bill from "Just 2007" of 1.4 million...They tried and were willing to pay the Mexican Government 30,000 to take him back and the Mexican Government refused, they are trying now to get INS to Pay the Bill. ...There illegal activity is costing the US Tax payers Billions Nation wide

[ubuibiok]

YES...WHIP OUT THERE NEST....They are just like cockroaches, the invade our country, scurry around in the night to evade or border control and allow employers not to have to pay a better wage to workers and take away jobs from the people born in this country, wages that would pay for good education, health care and comfort of the people born here.

[edaddy4]

1)"wipes out their nest".. These are PEOPLE not insects!

2)"Puts them back at the (monetary) level..." Why do you want to harm them?

3) "when they "invaded" us". They represent a peaceful migration like has happened since human history. The town of Postville's economy is gutted by this event in the name of "National Security" indeed.

There is no justice served, especially in the way that this process was carried out. This whole thing reeks similarly of the Jewish "relocation" in Naziland.

[ubuibiok]

No, You pay the Bill...An illegal align here in a Miami Hosp is in a coma from a car accident 3 years ago. The Hospital just requested assistance from the state of Florida to pays his Medical bill from "Just 2007" of 1.4 million...They tried and were willing to pay the Mexican Government 30,000 to take him back and the Mexican Government refused, they are trying now to get INS to Pay the Bill....There activity is costing the US Tax payers Billions Nation wide