Rights from the churchs perspective. My understanding is obama meets regularly with Church Leaders and regularly with protestant leaders and catholic leaders at the bishops conference. The argument from the religious perspectives argument is that the policies are not humane. They are not fair. Migrants are treated fairly. The state has the right to deport somebody but its often the way its done. Family separation. Somebody picked up a work site in the children are left at home or their children were put into foster care and thats in another increasingly important phenomena. The separated families of the churches concerns are the conditions under which they travel, that they are provided with fair treatment, due process and you know if somebody arrives and works and earned citizenship they should be provided that opportunity to naturalize and become a citizen. Host Jacqueline Maria hagan how did you get involved in this work . Guest the particular project or the migration . Host in gene
Is an additional challenge. Thank you for your question. I want to thank the audience and please, immediately following the session reminder [applause] they will be signing books for the booster available in the signing area. Please become a friend of the festival, free of charge to the literacy programs in the community. On the mall or on the website and please join the book signing in a few minutes. Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate your interest and again, thank you to the colleagues, luis urrea and anna ochoa oleary. That. Good reading. Is great to be sure. I remember it was late 1990s when i went to the changing hands store and it was right before my first trip to mexico. So i had all kinds of books about mexico i remember reading and reading because i always had a special part for changing hands. So a the border for chelation with Homeland Security this is my version became not a couple months ago but in my book looks like a kid not three years ago and it has travel
From the 70s to the mid1990s. There is a lot of books. I think this one is looking at a post9 11, looking at this kind of rapid expansion, looking at different Civil Liberties issues and i would like to think that its you know, it covers new ground but its definitely on the shoulders of giants as they say. All this great work thats been done around border stuff for years and years and years. My other question is has there have been any interest among legislators in your book, in the issues that it has raised specifically from your work . Beto orourke is from el paso. I mean i dont know but i know beto orourke he is a congressperson based in el paso, texas and i believe he is pretty interested in it and we have had some backandforth. He is a u. S. Congressperson. I know it has reached his year now his desk or his ears and i imagine because he actually communicates with me about it, i imagine that hopefully, hopefully its been seen by other congresspeople as well. None of our congresspeo
Great. In the evenness of the reporting we need to go beyond to preach to the choir. Most of us here living in a bubble are aware of the issues that you go to new york and the east papers and you know you dont see the same type of reporting where theres very little of it and you dont see it from the perspective of the border. I dont want to say its mainstream in terms of speaking about a reality that makes even us feel as if we are out of reality. I had a person from back east tommy what you all are demanding really is kind of out of the pale in terms of the number of immigration reform. You are outside the Fringe Groups in many ways. And i have trouble really digesting that because we are on the border but isnt that more reason to have the perspective thats part of the mainstream conversation . So they basically to answer your question, i would encourage more evenness in terms of reporting by including not only the voices of the border but also of the minority populations as well whic
A good idea. Later on because this was a threeyear project she was no longer there. They really didnt like our project and we could do whatever we wanted. Our colleagues put in the foundation and i have to acknowledge the Ford Foundation which is funding various projects including ngos and other foundations that stepped up to the plate specifically because they are aware of the politics funding that has been ratcheted up and when i say politics of funding i refer to any Immigration Reform and all of the vested interest including the corporations that handle the Detention Centers making political contributions this is a highly charged political entire month for the question that was raised. I want to think that researchers fothank theresearcht youre doing and bring the issues to our attention. Luis, i read every one of your books. I sit in my armchair and think this is horrible, this is wonderful, this is horrible. What can i as a person that lives in northern tucson that rates about yo