Immigration Politics: Arizona Students Are Teaching Us How To Fight Back

Arizona Students Are Teaching Us How To Fight Back - COLORLINES: "At the University of Arizona, where I spoke as part of their “Who Draws the Line” series, students have put up a border fence designed to provide daily teaching opportunities about what is so wrong with our narrow and race-baiting immigration debate. The project is a collaboration between No Mas Muertes/No More Deaths, which works to prevent people dying as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and the Jewish Voice for Peace, which works to end Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The fence spans the length of four football fields and runs along one side of the campus quad, forcing students to walk all the way around it. While a few people have complained about the inconvenience, student leaders told me that many people said thanks for providing a focal point that got people to rethink borders."