Dear friends,
On March 15 we facilitated an
interesting and informative workshop at Northern Manhattan’s Word Up Community Bookshop. The
session included a presentation on the sanctuary that the neighborhood’s Holyrood Episcopal Church has
provided for Amanda
Morales Guerra and her children since August 2017, and a discussion about
ways to answer the sometimes uncomfortable questions people have about
immigration. Many thanks to Word Up for giving us this opportunity! The
bookstore is a valuable local resource for people who live in the New York
area, sponsoring cultural and political events in both Spanish and English;
read more about it here
and here.
And you can pick up a copy of The Politics of Immigration there while
supporting an independent bookseller.
New Yorkers who want to show
support for Amanda Morales Guerra can attend a vigil held each Friday beginning
at 4:30 pm at 181st Street and Fort Washington Avenue in Northern Manhattan.
Suffolk County Community College
invited us to facilitate two immigration discussions on March 22, but the event
had to be cancelled because of the snowstorm that closed the college for two
days. The sponsors are hoping to reschedule for later for this semester.
Jane will be facilitating a daytime
class and an evening event in Champaign-Urbana, IL, on April 5 and then
attending the Labor Notes Conference
in Chicago from April 6 to April 8. David expects to be in the DC area for an
event sometime this spring. If you’re interested in connecting with us in any
of these areas, please write us at mailto:thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com.
Finally, with the
renewed focus on gun violence in the United States, it’s important to remember
that the U.S. arms industry also profits from gun violence in Mexico and
Central America, and that this is major force driving unauthorized immigration
here. Two of the blog posts below link to articles about this connection,
including the role of a former head of the Border Patrol in transforming the
NRA from an organization promoting gun safety to what it is today.
Some recent blog posts:
Protest
Roundup: Is Resistance to ICE on the Rise?, February 19, 2018
No
More Deaths volunteer indicted on human-smuggling charges, February 25,
2018
Interesting
Stats on Immigration, Crime and E-Verify, March 8, 2018
Gun
Control Is an Immigration Issue, March 26, 2018
Gun
Control Is an Immigration Issue: A Note on the NRA, March 27, 2018
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