![]() ![]() ![]() Almost as an afterthought, Luiselli asked her departing attorney if the organization also needed interpreters. She had been recruited because the organization desperately needed Spanish-speaking lawyers. She hired a lawyer to help with her case, but soon after the lawyer quit to take a new job at a non-profit representing unaccompanied minors who arrived at the southern border of the United States to claim asylum. Her family had applied for green cards, or permanent resident status in the United States, but while everyone else’s cards arrived, hers had been lost somewhere along the way. Valeria Luiselli came to the work of interpretation by chance. ![]() “The causes are deeply embedded in our shared hemispheric history and are therefore not some distant problem in a foreign country that no one can locate on a map, but in fact a transnational problem that includes the United States.” ![]()
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