I just spent another weekend driving hours to a detention center for a one-hour visit with a detainee. I do this because the Prisons for Profit want every bed in the U.S. filled every night, and if the beds in one State are filled, detainees are flown to another State where they know no one […]
By now most of you have seen the pictures at our southern border of asylum seekers and people fleeing their countries. What about undocumented people already here in the U.S. Some of them overstayed their visas, some were brought here as babies or small children and didn’t apply for citizenship when they reached eighteen. Some […]
What about them? Here’s what I’ve learned. Nationwide 1 in 14 K-12 students have at least one undocumented parent. 5.9 million U.S. citizen children have an undocumented family member Around 725,000 students are undocumented Wherever their parents have come from, their children may have no knowledge of that country. Without family ties or language, what […]
How long must you live in a place to find people who make a difference? I moved here six years ago and didn’t know a soul. Just learning to navigate this major city after living in a town of 3,000 in the winter and a small city the other eight months was almost overwhelming. I […]
Israel has banned Jewish Voices for Peace from entering the country along with nineteen other organizations in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement. (BDS). And a member of their own Knesset has been told that he can’t formally accept an invitation from JVP to speak in the U.S. Really. He’s appealing to the Israeli Supreme […]