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CPT Borderlands Witness: Walls
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Thursday, July 19, 2007. And within the hearts of those of us who do not have to live these borderland realities,. There are also walls, walls built of fear and indifference. May God grant us grace to make it over, under, or through these walls, that we might see more clearly the faces of our sisters and brothers struggling in the Rio Grande Valley, and that we might join their struggle for a humane immigration policy. Should the seminary tear down its literal wall? 8221; the question should be “ho...
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CPT Borderlands Witness: Who's Imprisoned? Who profits? Who pays?
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Monday, July 23, 2007. On July 22, the Burlington, NC Times-News front page headlines read: "Detainees help keep jail full". 319 undocumented people have been detained in the county jail since May when local sheriff's deputies adopted immigration enforcement roles. Of the 319 ICE detainees held in May, 149 lived in Alamance county. The article closed with a sheriff's department spokesman comment:"Residents are not citizens.". Posted by Borderlands Witness. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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CPT Borderlands Witness: Las Cruces to Laredo
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Thursday, July 12, 2007. Las Cruces to Laredo. Here are some excerpts from the team's daily log for the first full week of the Borderlands Witness Drive:. Departed Sitting Tree, stopped to assist Rick with a bandage for a wound incurred in the course of his roofing project, refueled the Jetta, then headed east on I-10. Lunch in a public park in Deming, NM. Before being urged out by a volunteer who demanded to see a warrant (see also our earlier post. The Rio Grande Valley. Following morning conference ca...
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CPT Borderlands Witness: Adios a la Frontera... hola Borderlands.
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Sunday, July 15, 2007. Adios a la Frontera. hola Borderlands. Gloria Anzaldua, Preface to the First Edition, Borderlands/La Frontera. The Borderlands Witness Drive departed la Frontera this afternoon—a bittersweet passage. The footprints we made from the Arizona desert to the Rio Grande Valley have left a palpable impression on my spirit… even as the pull toward Capitol Hill gains momentum. John heid, Beaumont, TX, 15th July 2007. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Looking back on Louisiana.
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CPT Borderlands Witness: Laredo to Raymondville
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Excerpts from the team's daily log for the second full week of the Borderlands Witness Drive:. We arrived in Monterrey around 5 pm after the exciting (harrowing? BWD met with Meliton. We departed Monterrey after lunch and drove to Brownsville, TX, arriving in time to meet CPTer Elizabeth Garcia and attend an organizing meeting for the vigil against the border wall this coming Saturday, the 14. Next we went to Harlingen to discuss the Raymondville detention center. With Jodi Good...
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CPT Borderlands Witness: Looking back on Louisiana
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Looking back on Louisiana. As we left the border and entered the interior last week. By Haven, July 16, 2007. Entering Louisiana, what will we find? Immigrants of another kind. Here they live, here they work;. Hot and sweaty, they do not shirk. In the cane fields oh so sweet,. With snakes and skeeters round your feet. On the rooftops in the blazing sun,. Repairing the wreckage Katrina has done. Gas and oil wells, what about them? Are they jobs for migrants, or poor white men?
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CPT Borderlands Witness: Lomas de Poleo
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Monday, July 9, 2007. The residents have a legal claim to the land under Mexico’s agricultural laws, which state that settlers who live on agricultural land for 5 years or more gain legal title as long as no disputes arise. The community settled the land over 30 years ago, and has been farming there ever since. Zaragoza holds no claim to the land. Nonetheless, his stranglehold over the colony tightens. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Christian Peacemaker Teams on the U.S./Mexico Border.
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CPT Borderlands Witness: From the interior borderlands to the belly of the beast
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Saturday, July 28, 2007. From the interior borderlands to the belly of the beast. For our initial day of meetings with congressional staffers this past Friday, we prepared the following handout to help in the discussion:. Proposals for Humane Immigration Reform. Current policy has failed. It has not stemmed the flow of immigration; rather, it forces people to cross in more dangerous areas. Deaths in the desert have reached an all-time high. Additional construction of border walls as authorized by the Sec...
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CPT Borderlands Witness: July 2007
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Monday, July 30, 2007. The team is in Washington D.C. on Monday July 30, preparing for a public witness and action. We have a banner that came with us from Brownsville Texas, covered with signatures, and saying "No Border Wall". We have a letter from an 11-year-old girl to President Bush, saying "No Border Wall". That is the message we are bringing. This poem was used in our liturgy this morning. In Douglas Arizona, on a starry night,. Four blocks from our house loomed a painful sight. They cannot go hom...
