ICE Castles

Did you know there were secret ICE-sponsored detention centers for undocumented immigrants in North Carolina? Yes, today, this week, this month. Things are particularly stringent on this issue in Alamance County, apparently. Those of us who were together for the tour of the new Civil Rights Museum yesterday heard about it --not from the tour, but from one of our committee members--. It turns out that The Nation had an article about this very phenomenon about four months ago. As you will see, it mentions Cary, North Carolina. You can read it here. Read and weep.

African Americans and Latin@s join in immigration initiative

Yesterday, on Juneteenth, the community organization ACORN launched a new initiative involving African Americans and Latin@s together in the movement for comprehensive immigration reform.

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Note: The spelling Latin@ is not a typo. It is a written word some Latinas and Latinos are using in order to avoid using a longer gender-inclusive phrase such as Latina/Latino or Latino/a.

P.S. "Latin@" or "Hispanic"? Is there a difference? Who uses what term? Here's one person's fairly accurate reflection and comparison. Note also that The Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (published under the auspices of ACHTUS) uses both names because there is no full consensus on the issue -- though most of the writers for the journal probably use "Latino" or "Latina."