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An Interpreter Speaking Up for Migrants

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Julia Preston reports for The New York Times from Waterloo, Iowa: "In 23 years
as a certified Spanish interpreter for federal courts, Erik Camayd-Freixas has
spoken up in criminal trials many times, but the words he uttered were rarely
his own. Then he was summoned here by court officials to translate in the
hearings for nearly 400 illegal immigrant workers arrested in a raid on May 12
at a meatpacking plant. Since then, Mr. Camayd-Freixas, a professor of Spanish
at Florida International University, has taken the unusual step of breaking the
code of confidentiality among legal interpreters about their work."