From a Rio Grande, Texas local paper, personal stories and grassroots organizing
TheMonitor.com: "McALLEN — One after another, they took the First United Methodist Church’s stage to tell their personal stories of immigration. A nun who cared for a family at a shelter after they fled violence in Veracruz. A grown woman, now a U.S. citizen, whose parents endured a dangerous journey in illegally crossing the border years ago. A student attending college on scholarship with no future when she graduates.
... Those personal stories were on attendees’ minds Thursday night as they pledged to support comprehensive immigration reform and develop support within their religious communities for humane laws." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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