Orientation 4

Finish Crossing Arizona and discuss the documentary

Articles-Indiana Major Legislation, Arizonas Underground Railroad, Altar, Minutemen Makeover

Finish discussing The Devils Highway

What is your families history?

Discussion of the details of the trip.

Orientation 3

Articles- Maquila Industry, NAFTA, Nogales

Discussion-Border Economics

-Coyotes, polleros and human smuggling

-Costs

-Detention Camps

View Maquilapolis

Discuss Terminology

Racial Profiling

This video is an interesting piece about the laws targeting immigrants that encourage racial profiling, much like the proposed legislation for Indiana that we read about for our orientation today.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/29/obama_admin_expands_law_enforcement_program

Luis Alberto Urrea

I'm one of those readers who really needs to know about the author that he or she is reading. The link I posted is a talk that Urrea gave about his experiences writing about the Border and about his past, living in Tijuana and San Diego. He's a great storyteller and actually quite funny. I think this provides a good context of what motivated him to write The Devil's Highway as well as many great anecdotes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zlVcWorbZc

Orientation 2

Orientation two covered immigration policy and the border state.ž The discussion was based on immigration history and the readings for the week. The questions posed were: The border and immigration are complex issues, where do you see the issue going in the next 5,10,20 years? How do you think it should be dealt with?

Immigration issues-not just US, Italia

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1943676,00.html?xid=yahoo-feat

Undocumented students

Hi Everyone, this is something I came across today and thought it would be good to post for discussion: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2009/10/22/gutierrez.dream.act.student.cnn.html