It is More than Just the Dreamers by Vincentian Heritage published on 2018-01-17T18:12:40Z This episode is written and read by Rev. Craig Mousin, J.D. https://works.bepress.com/craig_mousin/47/ To view the sources of material discussed above, see: https://offices.depaul.edu/mission-and-values/Ombudsperson/Documents/dreamers.pdf Genre News & Politics Comment by Craig On April 19, 2018, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against the Department of Justice that had attempted to restrict funding to cities that had declared themselves sanctuary cities in oppostion to federal immigraiton enforcement policies. The quote in the next comment came from that decision on pp. 2-3. See: immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/…%2004%2019.pdf 2018-04-25T23:19:51Z Comment by Craig Chicago v. Sessions: “The founders of our country well understood that the concentration of power threatens individual liberty and established a bulwark against such tyranny by creating a separation of powers among the branches of government. If the Executive Branch can determine policy, and then use the power of the purse to mandate compliance with that policy by the state and local governments, all without the authorization or even acquiescence of elected legislators, that check against tyranny is forsaken. The Attorney General in this case used the sword of federal funding to conscript state and local authorities to aid in federal civil immigration enforcement.…It falls to us, the judiciary, as the remaining branch of the government, to act as a check on such usurpation of power. We are a country that jealously guards the separation of powers, and we must be ever vigilant in that endeavor.” (see next comment for cite) 2018-04-25T16:08:10Z Comment by Craig ImmigrationProfBlog provides a cite to this report on how private detention centers facilitate the breakup within our communities. Prepared by the Texas A&M University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), and the University of Texas School of Law Immigration Clinic, it is entitled: “ 'I was treated like an animal' Abuses Against African Detainees at the West Texas Detention Facility, March 22, 2018". See: law.utexas.edu/wp-content/upload…C-WTDF-Report.pdf 2018-03-29T19:55:06Z Comment by Craig Thanks to Professor Margaret Taylor who shares this report from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2017 that "AAP policy says no child should be in detention centers or separated from parents" One year later, litigation still is required to reunited parents and children. See: www.aappublications.org/news/2017/03/13/Immigration031317 2018-03-09T00:39:43Z
