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Photo: Jewish activist Sha Harvey performs at the start of a Passover rally. Liberation photo
Activists gathered outside the Kenosha Detention Center April 11 to demand the Biden administration stop the continued detention and dehumanization of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, for legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States and for the abolition of ICE.
The rally, which was organized by Jewish leftist group Never Again Action and immigrants’ rights organization Voces de la Frontera, corresponded with the annual Jewish observance of Passover, which commemorates the Jews’ delivery from enslavement.
“Passover is a holiday celebrating flight from oppression,” NAA organizer Rachel Buff explained. “I am deeply invested in the ways that Jewish history proposes broad solidarity. Our historical experiences as Jews as well as our interpretive traditions insist on metaphors which lead us into showing up for others.”
(JTA) â Three weeks after taking office, Joe Biden announced that he would quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States.
For HIAS, it seemed like an answered prayer, as the Jewish refugee aid agency had endured a rough four years under Bidenâs predecessor, Donald Trump.
HIAS, which once focused on resettling refugees, had confronted the first president since World War II who demonized refugees and then temporarily banned them from the United States. The gunman who killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue condemned HIAS by name shortly before the massacre.
So HIAS was excited for Biden, who spoke of Americaâs duty to be a compassionate and welcoming country. Bidenâs promise on Feb. 12 to let in 62,500 refugees in 2021 seemed to be a fulfillment of that rhetoric. Trump had set the cap for fiscal year 2021 at 15,000.
Paola Hincapie Rendon will never forget the day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped her as she was taking her daughter to school in Chicago.
âI was driving and I got stopped by ICE. They told me to pull over. I did. They told me to get out of the car. I (asked) them, `Why?â They wouldnât tell me,â said Rendon-Hincapie.
She told of her experience to more than 60 people gathered Sunday in front of the Kenosha County Detention Center on 88th Avenue, where she was joined by a number of social justice groups, including Never Again Action and Voces de La Frontera.
Highlights from the 2021 Latinx Children s Literature Conference By Gnesis Villar | Mar 11, 2021
On March 6, the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education in New York City hosted a virtual mini-conference on Latinx children’s literature. The conference’s third edition focused on Mexican American themes and featured David Bowles as the keynote speaker, who is the recipient of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s 2019 Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry for
They Call Me Güero and two Pura Belpré Honors.
‘Whole Neighborhoods Inside Us’: Community and Belonging in Picture Books
Alexandra Aceves, editor at Junior Library Guild, served as moderator for the first panel, starting off by introducing each author before interrogating the very idea of Mexican American identity, asking: “What does Mexican American mean to you and where do you find yourself situated within that category? How does it shape your work, if i
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