Immigration

Volume 2, No.5 – By Ramón Bannister This is another interview of an immigrant, but the difference with this person is that she eventually acquired citizenship. She prefers to be unnamed, so I’ll call her María. She describes what it’s like to cross the border and the hardships she still experiences. I translated the interview from the original Spanish. All interviews were recorded and can be provided online as evidence that the interview took place. [...]

Volume 2, No.4 – By Ramón Bannister The previous stories in this series focused on the Minute Man Project. Now we will hear from an undocumented immigrant who is not shy about sharing her name. She is Angela Perez, a woman who has been in the United States for more than ten years. As we spoke, she prepared bags of food at the Tucson Soup kitchen run by Brian Flag – food that would go [...]

Volume 2, No.3 – By Ramón Bannister For Part Three of the immigration series, “Immigration across various U.S. states,” we’re staying in Arizona for now so that we can analyze two interviews of people from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Jim Gilchrist was the co-organizer of the Minute Man Project, and still operates it as a 501c(4) non-profit organization. Kat Rodriguez is the director for the Coalition of Human Rights in Tucson, Arizona, a [...]

Volume 2, No.2 – By Ramón Bannister In this story, Kena Cubed reveals the topic of the series for Volume 2, which is “Immigration across various U.S. states.” As an introduction to the topic, this Part 2 will be an in-depth look at the launch of the Minute Man Project (MMP), an event that garnered much national press. It began officially in April of 2004 in the heart of Tombstone, Arizona; unofficially various groups began [...]

Volume 2, No.1 – By Ramón Bannister The Southwest and the Northeast This is not a news story per se as much as it is a geographical comparison between two very different regions of the country. Below this long introduction are photographs where you’ll be able to compare the geography with your own eyes. By looking at Southern Arizona (Tucson/Phoenix area) and Eastern Massachusetts (Boston/Worcester area) side-by-side, I want to get you used to the [...]