Respond Blog
Translating Whatsapp Audios for our Partner’s Clients
We are so grateful to our partners and donors because their funding allows us to compensate translators like Irma, who works relentlessly to help others.
Update on the work of our Haitian Kreyol team
We wanted to share an update on the incredible work our Haitian Kreyol translators and Team Leads have been able to accomplish. Thank you to everyone who supported the mutual aid fund which has helped make all this work possible…
California Welcoming Task Force: Rapid Response Translation of Crucial Border Policy Changes
As the Biden administration begins to unravel Title 42 and MPP, chaos at the border ensues as asylum seekers struggle to figure out what is happening with changing immigration policies…
Meet Elizabeth, a budding Kaqchikel interpreter and ICE detention survivor fighting for language access
When I asked Elizabeth the word for freedom in Kaqchikel, her native Mayan language spoken in Guatemala , she told me there is no direct equivalent. She provided her own poetic translation: Nq'isamuj' y manq'i pahe tu'j which translates to: “luchar sin detenerse” - ¨to fight without being stopped¨…
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with Al Otro Lado
Al Otro Lado is a bi-national, social justice, legal services organization. We have offices in Tijuana, San Diego, and Los Angeles. AOL works to provide services directly to asylum seekers, migrants, and deportees, as well as working on litigation efforts to push back on anti-immigrant policies and …
Pulaar speaker has been released after months of detention
We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […]
A.A. has been in detention for months. Respond Crisis Translation connected his attorney, Denisha Jones, with a Pulaar interpreter…
Domestic violence survivor has won her asylum case
We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […]
B.R.P., originally from Mexico, is an asylum-seeker and survivor of severe domestic violence. She was detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center for nearly a year…
Trans Asylum Seeker, formerly denied legal representation, has been granted release
We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […]
B.L.C is a trans asylum seeker who was detained at Otay Mesa without legal representation. Respond translated all of her documents into English for her bond hearing, …
Detained asylum seeker, formerly denied access to interpreter, has been granted release
We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […] J.A.S., originally from Mexico, has worked in agricultural fields in the United States for years. He was arrested by local police and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center for months …
Respond volunteer writes in the New York Times about her critical work
One of our volunteer translators Kate Goldman today is published in the New York Times where she discusses the urgency of her language access work with Respond Crisis Translation in addition to ICE´s responsibility to …