SANCTUARY FOR IMMIGRANTS More and more places of worship are saying NO to ICE raids and offering protection to refugees and undocumented residents. Historically, “sanctuary” is an ancient practice rooted in the struggle against injustice. Today a congregation that...
In 2018 the U.S. Government introduced the Zero Tolerance Policy and told border patrol officials to separate children and even babies from legal asylum seeker parents. RAICES has produced a documentary, The Fight, in which they follow the civil rights lawyers who...
I wanted to point out the contradiction. This country purports itself to be a safe haven for LGBTQ people, but it routinely tortures and harasses trans and gender nonconforming migrants in detention. I had known about the case of someone named Roxsana Hernandez, a...
June 18, 2020. In an historic 5-4 decision the United States Supreme Court ruled today that the Trump administration’s effort in 2017 to terminate the program known as DACA violated the law. From the Opinion in Dept. of Homeland Security v. Regents of Univ. of...
Donald Trump has managed to get his border wall argues journalist for the Los Angeles Times Rachel Morris in her article entitled “Trump Got His Border Wall After All.” Morris’ article provides an in-depth look at the U.S. attitudes towards migrants,...
Cien Años de Soledad Remains outstanding I only now noticed That Cesar is gone, too. I didn’t know him. We only discussed Gabriel Garcîa Marquez And what it meant to be owned by a story ...