Interpreters were sent to talk to the refugees, who were without papers.
And interpreters are sending me messages and emails: "Please Janis, help us, talk to Matt, can you talk to the press or the media because we are stuck in Afghanistan?" After we were on Voice of America [the channel in Afghanistan], people said I was a CIA agent.
A December news story hailed a New Mexican boy as a hero when he served as an interpreter for the emergency crew that was sent to rescue 50 passengers after a bus crash.
Melky Cabrera, freshly demoted to the minor leagues, stood in a corner of the Yankees' clubhouse Friday afternoon and tried to explain through an interpreter that being sent to Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre had come as a surprise to him.
Soon after returning from service in Afghanistan, Hughes began studying filmmaking at the American Film Institute where he earned an MFA in Directing, and for his thesis project, created his first dramatic short film Day One, a riveting look at an Afghan-American woman who joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan.
Under the deal, a small army of 4,000 staff, consisting of police officers, asylum cases officers, judges and interpreters, will be sent to the Greek islands to process refugee claims and returns.
Around 4,000 staff – asylum caseworkers, judges, interpreters and border guards – are being sent to the Greek islands to ensure that every single person claiming the right to remain in Europe will have an interview and the right to appeal.
"People would lie to stay here because they don't want to be sent back home," the interpreter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she did not want to implicate anyone, said.
Only a small fraction are sent to training programs like Berlitz to be certified interpreters.
There are also logistical constraints: visiting areas without enough space to conduct many meetings at once, lack of notice about families being sent to the facilities and language barriers that require interpreters to communicate with some clients.
