Thread: REPORT: Indigenous languages pose challenge for immigration officials at the border

REPORT: Indigenous languages pose challenge for immigration officials at the border

August 2, 2018

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El PASO, Texas – A spike in illegal crossings over the past several years of migrants from Central America has posed a new challenge for immigration officials: how to communicate with a growing number of asylum seekers who speak rare indigenous languages.


Hundreds of indigenous languages are spoken in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, some spoken by only a few hundred, or even dozens, of people. That issue was compounded by the zero-tolerance immigration policy, later reversed, that separated families at the border.
The article goes on to state the following:
Activists say many young children did not even know the name of the language they spoke, which made critical communication with them almost possible to carry out. The inability to communicate with anyone, activists said, had harmful effects on the children.


“There’s 26 different dialects spoken in Guatemala among the Mayan indigenous population. You’re hearing from social workers that they don’t even know for weeks what dialect it is that the child is speaking and they become really withdrawn,” said Taylor Levy, legal director of Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, a non-profit that offers services to migrants and refugees.



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"There’s 26 different dialects spoken in Guatemala among the Mayan indigenous population. ..."

Seems like someone doesn't know English well enough to know that the plural of the verb "to be" is "are" not "is".

Make ENGLISH the official language.

No placement in school, a job, etc. ENGLISH ONLY!

And they cannot come here until they can read, write and speak English!

SEND THEM BACK WITH ROSETTA STONE "ENGLISH" CD THEY CAN LEARN IT ON THE BUS BACK HOME!

How will they get jobs if they can't speak english or even spanish.??? They are going straight on the welfare rolls and democrats love it.

Originally Posted by Text Driving Is Deadly

How will they get jobs if they can't speak english or even spanish.??? They are going straight on the welfare rolls and democrats love it.

They hire whole crews of them, discriminating against everyone else, and they report to a bi-lingual manager. Been happening for years. Millions of them.