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Rodolfo Estrada

Rodolfo Estrada

Senior Program Associate

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A new publication and a personal reminder of why the U-visa works

Editor's note: Rodolfo Estrada is a former senior program associate for Vera's Center on Immigration and Justice. He is the author of the new Vera brief How Law Enforcement Is Using the U-Visa and is currently executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights. In recent years, U.S. law enforcement agencies have had a uniq ...

Rodolfo Estrada

October 04, 2011

Training law enforcement about a visa option for crime victims

In collaboration with the nonprofit organization Legal Momentum, Vera has begun training law enforcement personnel throughout the United States on use of the U-visa. Together, our National Immigrant Victims’ Access to Justice Partnership offers technical assistance to police agencies so that they learn more about the application and certification p ...

Rodolfo Estrada

December 06, 2010

Arizona's new law

What does it mean for policing?

Arizona’s controversial new law, SB 1070, will allow police officers (and other state officials and agencies) to check the legal status of any individual who has contact with law enforcement and is reasonably suspected of being in the country illegally. The consequences for individuals without the proper status are immense and can lead to their det ...

Rodolfo Estrada

Court is intimidating, especially if you are seven years old

Recently, I conducted a site visit for Vera’s Unaccompanied Children Program, which helpslegal service providers increase pro bono legal representation for immigrant children who have no parent or guardian to help them as they undergo removal (deportation) proceedings. The provider I visited uses a host of child-friendly tools to teach these childr ...

Rodolfo Estrada

February 19, 2010

A Lesson Learned from Hawaii

A few weeks ago I was on a “What Works” panel at the 2nd Annual Hawaii Conference on Language Access. In addition to feeling extremely lucky to have an opportunity to swim, snorkle, and surf, I was excited to learn about language access issues in a state whose linguistic norms are very different from the rest of the country's. (For example, Hawaii’ ...

Rodolfo Estrada

November 02, 2009

Who is bilingual?

I grew up in a Spanish- and English-speaking household and feel comfortable speaking, reading, and writing in both languages. However, I’ve often wondered whether I can call myself truly bilingual. English is by far my stronger language and the default language I use in academic and business settings. In college, when I studied abroad in Mexico an ...

Rodolfo Estrada

September 14, 2009

Our Work Continues to Make an Impact

While our Bridging the Language Divide publication was released almost 6 months ago, we’re very excited that it’s still creating lots of interest and discussion! Last week the publication was cited in an article profiling the work of the Brewster (New York) Police Department, which is using interpreters at community forums to communicate with its g ...

Rodolfo Estrada

August 04, 2009

Finding Solutions at the CCDO Conference

On July 14th, I was in Tampa, Florida, moderating a panel on Solutions to the Challenges of Providing Services to Individuals with Limited English Proficiency at the 2009 Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) national conference.The panel included an attorney from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, Office for Civil ...

Rodolfo Estrada

Overcoming Language Barriers in the Heartland

Storm Lake, a city of about 10,000 people midway between Des Moines and Omaha, Nebraska, has the distinction of being the most diverse city in Iowa. This is largely the result of demographic changes experienced over the past 20 years. In the early 1990s, Laotian refugees resettled in the city and, later, Mexican immigrants arrived to work the local ...

Rodolfo Estrada

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