News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Language barrier stings prosecutors

Richard Ruelas
Republic columnist
Jan. 29, 2007 12:00 AM

The three men gave brief, sometimes- disjointed statements to officers. Then they entered a courtroom where a judge entered a plea of not guilty on their behalf. That was nearly a year ago. Since then, the three human-smuggling suspects have sat in jail while attorneys and court staff try to figure out what language they speak.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the charges against the men will be dropped if the courts can't find someone to translate trial proceedings into the men's indigenous languages by Feb. 14.

It would be another blow to Attorney General Terry Goddard's plan to target smugglers by investigating their wire transfers.

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