At our language Justice Forum at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco on Oct. 30, we discuss the targeting on asylum seekers with language violence and language access. It was covered by Mission Local.

Last Thursday, Oct. 30, Respond Crisis Translation held a panel at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco to talk about language depravation and it was covered by the SFGATE media.

A dystopian scene unfolded in the SF immigration court this past week: a Mandarin-speaking man was unlawfully abducted by ICE, and was alerted to his fate through a machine translator. No one present in the courtroom could speak Mandarin ….

Every translation has a real, tangible impact on someone's story. The work of the Spanish Team.

Working at Respond and being part of the community has shown me that what we are doing really does make a difference. Every case we translate or interpret has a real, tangible impact on someone's story. Getting the chance to work with people who are aligned on the same causes …

Linguists with Respond Crisis Translation participated in interviewing and sharing their expertise in this research article titled “Held Incommunicado: The Failed Promise of Language Access in Immigration Detention.”