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Tag: Immigration

Asylum-seekers travel by bus along the Texas-Mexico border.
Posted inImmigration

Are we a country that reduces humans to their legal status?

by Karen González October 5, 2022May 12, 2023

In the biblical parable of the good Samaritan, a lawyer asks Jesus an important question: “Who is my neighbor?” That simple question demands an answer today as much as it did in the ancient world of the first century. It seems that we, as a country, have forgotten who our neighbors are; we have decided […]

A group of people look at books spread out on large tables.
Posted inEducation

Moving beyond ‘Hispanic’ one page at a time

by Andrea Morales and MLK50 Staff October 4, 2022May 12, 2023
Posted inCivil Rights

Boo! The year’s scariest laws, proposals and policies

by Michael Jackson October 30, 2019October 11, 2020
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice, Immigration

EXCLUSIVE: Journalist Manuel Duran walks free from Alabama immigration detention

by Deborah Douglas and Andrea Morales July 11, 2019October 5, 2020
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Protests, Social Justice

Journalist Manuel Duran makes bond, may leave Alabama detention center today

by Andrea Morales and Deborah Douglas July 11, 2019October 5, 2020
Posted inCriminal Justice, Immigration, Policing in America

One year later: The case of Memphis journalist Manuel Duran

by J. Dylan Sandifer April 3, 2019October 5, 2020
Posted inImmigration, LGBTQ, Social Justice

Memphis-area activists rally to fill void left by shifting U.S. immigration policies

by J. Dylan Sandifer November 22, 2018October 5, 2020
Posted inImmigration

Why deporting the ‘Dreamers’ is immoral

by Michael Blake March 1, 2018March 21, 2023
Posted inMartin Luther King

MLK’s ’63 jail letter shines light on DREAMers’ quest for opportunity

by MLK50 Memphis December 19, 2017March 15, 2023
Posted inEducation, Immigration

CBU freshman ‘had a breakdown’ when she learned of DOJ plan to end DACA

by Rebekah Marie Yearout December 5, 2017October 5, 2020

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