My father brought me here legally from Laos when I was nine as a
refugee. He started working the very first week that we got here. We
were never on any kind of assistance program. Neither he nor I have
ever collected unemployment. We never got anything translated for us.
We got by just find and we learned to adapt to and appreciate this
country.

If everthing is being translated for them, these newcomers, I think
they will have a harder time to adjust because they will wait for
assistance every single time.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone