A Mexican Crossing Lines – Immigration: Part 4

A Mexican Crossing Lines – March 15, 2018 “Immigration: Part 4”

Tonight on A Mexican Crossing Lines:

:: CIVIC and interview with guest Christina Mansfield

Christina Mansfield is Co-Executive Director of CIVIC Community Initiative for Visiting Migrants – Freedom for Immigrants

FB Post on CIVIC: “Congratulations to our own Christina Mansfield and co-director Christina Fialho for receiving a 2018 The James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award!

The award comes with $200,000 to support our work advancing humane reforms to immigration detention. Join us in congratulating our founders and please watch and share this video with your community! #IrvineAwards

Thank you all for supporting us and believing in this mission and movement to #EndDetention!”

OUR MISSION
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) is the national immigration detention visitation network, which is working to end U.S. immigration detention by monitoring human rights abuses, elevating stories, building community-based alternatives to detention, and advocating for system change.

Listen to an Audio Podcast of the Show Here: (Note, Audio Podcasts are edited recordings of FB Live videos and are not necessarily what is broadcasted on the air on the radio station):

FaceBook Live Video of this Show Before Broadcasting (Note, FB Live videos are pre-recorded and then edited properly for radio Broadcasts on the air and some never air on the radio station):

Community Initiative for Visiting Migrants (CIVIC) https://www.facebook.com/endisolation/

CIVIC website: http://www.endisolation.org/

Freedomforimmigrants.org

Resources:

Maps and Statistics

http://www.endisolation.org/resources/immigration-detention/

National Hotline: http://www.endisolation.org/hotline

Visitation Programs: http://www.endisolation.org/projects/visitation-programs/

Corrupt Sheriff raids inmate food money for his beach house

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/03/etowah_sheriff_pocketed_over_7.html

Bad News: Sanctuary City Ban Begins in Texas

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/texas-immigration-law-sb4.html