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The Constitution promises an interpreter for fair trials – US courts often can’t deliver
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The Constitution promises an interpreter for fair trials – US courts often can’t deliver
A court interpreter checks the day's schedule of assignments. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley
In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work. The man and woman were Guatemalan citizens who spoke no English and very little Spanish. They spoke Mam, an Indigenous Mayan language.
Despite the man trying to tell an ICE officer as much, he was not provided with an interpreter, according to his sworn
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