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At a hearing on Aug. 2, supporters of the bill, the English Language Unity Act, said it would create incentives for immigrants to assimilate and save taxpayer money by ending federal spending on interpreters, document translations and multilingual Web sites.
In the world's most diverse city, it was hailed as a milestone: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed an executive order in July 2008 requiring every New York City agency that dealt with the public to provide interpreters, translated documents and other language help to people who spoke little or no English.
On translation by the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, one document turned out to be a copy of the Japanese Army List, with the names and postings of every officer in the Japanese Army.
Five interpreters helped him document their memories of encounters with the violence of war and its lingering effects on their lives.
No interpreter use was documented.
Interpreter use was documented for 60% of 107 patients who understood some or no English.
The second tobacco insider was Jeffrey Wigand, a former Brown & Williamson scientist who also had incriminating information, and who could serve as an interpreter of the Williams documents.
Interpreters and translated documents fill the courts, schools, hospitals - even when it's not necessary.
Neither of the men had entered the country through the programs for U.S.-affiliated Iraqis, but the Obama Administration responded by adding even more layers of vetting to a process that already took two years for well documented interpreters to clear.
