Interpreter Breaks Silence on Court Proceedings

A New York Times article discusses how a court interpreter, Erik Camayd-Freixas, has written an essay about how the illegal immigrant defendants -- many of them Guatamalen -- did not understand what was going on when they were prosecuted for document fraud following the raids at the Agriprocessors packing plants in Iowa. He discusses the sad details of the immigrants' cases and the wrenching decisions they made to accept plea bargains as the approximately 400 defendants were "processed" in federal court.