Burning Atlanta

Contrary to the heading of the article, there was something said that gave me hope. I'm tired of seeing the taxpayers picking up the tab for all the bilingual crap.

LEARN ENGLISH you pukes.

RECENT SLOWDOWN

Some interpreters and courts officials said the need for interpreting services has slowed in the past year.

“Because of anti-immigrant legislation since 2005, and again last year and this year, we are seeing a number of Latinos going away ... to other states or their home countries,” said Adrian Bernal, a registered court interpreter in Atlanta and member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Association of Interpreters and Translators, who has been interpreting since 2002.

Although legal residents also require Hispanic interpreting services from time to time, he said from his own experience it’s mainly undocumented immigrants who are in need of these services.

Mr. McManus said he has also noticed the need for interpreters has slightly decreased this year.

“There are those that speculate that many of the Hispanics have left our area because of a downturn in the economy and have moved to other places where the downturn is not as severe, (but) that may or may not be true,” he said.

“We still are working the same way we were this time last year in terms of the kind of cases we do, the number of cases we are dealing with. Whether or not we need an interpreter is not an issue anymore, we just have one.” I'd like to see the need for translators to drop to nearly nothing.