Many of the INS. medical and State Department personnel do not have Spanishspeaking capability. FEMA initially hired a large number of college and university students from the various universities in the State of Wisconsin to act as interpreters. I have heard stories that including overtime some of these interpreters were making as much as $800 to $1.000 per week. That all comes out of the taxpayers hide. It certainly is one of my recommendations that people who do have responsibility for interviewing and processing Cuban refugees be bilingual so that they can speak to the Cubans in their own native tongue. thus eliminating the necessity of hiring all these highpriced interpreters.
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