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2/28/22
WITNESS RADIO: Episode 11
A Tale of Two Presidencies: Proof that #ImmigrationISaBlackIssue
This episode's featured guest is Thomas Cartwright, a member of the leadership team of Witness at the Border. Tom dedicated his time during the past 24 months of the global pandemic to collecting, compiling, and communicating data that the US government would prefer you did not know about: the US Deportation Machine.
2/4/22
Been researching for a Mexican-American Studies lesson on how our country transitioned from open borders in 1840, to the current militarization of our border community.
It is evident there is a continued affinity for inhumane practices such as bathing our immigrant ancestors in gasoline, to the recent incarceration of immigrant children.
1/27/22
The Lone Star state, Texas, carved from a clash of manifest destinies competing for possession of land once settled by indigenous folk, pre-European migrants, a state that once defended its right to keep slaves, now defends its rights to decide who belongs there and who does not. It is filling jails with people it calls trespassers, many of them numbering among those much earlier peoples, some of them descendants of slaves.
1/25/22
The Department of Homeland Security asked for Public Comments: Identifying Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families.
This comment has been submitted by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, J.D. on behalf of WITNESS AT THE BORDER, with the support of the Task Force on the Americas of the National Lawyers’ Guild, the Forum on Haitian Migration in the Americas, and the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement.
1/24/22
WITNESS RADIO: Episode 10:
Is Family Separation What We Voted For?
Witness Radio's Executive Producer, Camilo Perez-Bustillo, and Creator Sarah Towle kick off their second season by reflecting on the Biden administration's one-year record on border and immigration, framed through the civil rights legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/17/2022
Our Letter to the Biden Administration:
Uphold Rights to Full Reparations & Restorative Justice for Families Harmed by Family Separation During Trump Era
1/7/22
There, but for the roll of the dice, go I. I could have been born in extreme poverty, outside the borders and gates that protect my privilege. My skin could have been another color. Despite the science fictionny paradoxes presented by these me-not-me scenarios, they are nothing but an extension of the fair measure of the capacity for empathy we are all born with. Empathy that is ignited when we let ourselves look into the faces of others and imagine their plight.
1/4/21
Remain in Mexico or MPP 2.0: Can Inhumane be Less Inhumane? Witness Radio: A Podcast About Immigration Ep. 9
LISTEN to Sarah Towle in conversation with 3 immigration experts, SHARE & SUPPORT by becoming a PATRON of WITNESS RADIO.
“We cannot talk about MPP 2.0 without talking about Title 42. That was a really nice way for President Joe Biden to placate his side and then keep Title 42 to placate the other side. Based on an archaic public health law.”-@Charlene D'Cruz #CrueltyIsNotOK #EndMPP
12/31/21
This is a time of sensory overload. All of us have bad news either to dread or suffer. The pandemic is personal, a wolf at our door.
As for the cause that draws us together here, for those that can bear its barrage of tragic news and profound disappointment, we are more and more alone in our concerns.
12/18/21
In honor of #InternationalMigrantsDay (Dec. 18), Witness Radio's Sarah Towle and Exec. Producer Camilo Antonio Perez Bustillo release a special conversation: "What's a Migrant's Life Worth?"
Read and Listen on Medium: What's a Migrant's Life Worth?
