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ALERT: Trump Administration Replacing In-Person Interpreters at Immigrants’ First Hearings With Pre-Recorded Videos

"This is a disaster in the making..." one judge said...

On Wednesday, multiple reports described how the Trump administration is preparing to replace in-court interpreters with pre-recorded videos as the main means of informing those facing deportation of their rights.

With this move the administration is taking multiple bites from the same apple, further deepening the crisis on the border. The language community can raise awareness in Congress of the harm this policy will do to the most vulnerable.

On June 27, the United States Senate passed  S.526 , the “Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs Reauthorization Act”. The bill was introduced in the Senate at the beginning of the 2019 calendar year by Senator Tom Udall [D-NM], and was advocated for by attendees of JNCL’s Language Advocacy Day 2019 shortly thereafter. The language community celebrates the passage of this bill during the International Year of Indigenous Languages, and as  other countries  make strides in the same direction.  
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This week, the Department of Health and Human Services posted a draft of a  new regulation  to implement §1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1557 covers non-discrimination in the provision of health care, to include the provision of language access.
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JULY 2019 ISSUE: FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2019