Sensenbrenner Bill: A Crime to Help an "Illegal" Immigrant

Tweet "Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the "Sensenbrenner Bill." If approved by the Senate, the law would make it a felony for immigrants to be in the United States without documents, criminalize the act of helping an "illegal" immigrant, deputize local police to enforce federal immigration restrictions, and authorize millions of dollars to build 700 more miles of walls between the United States and Mexico."

We need to watch out for this when they start talking about it in the Senate obviously.

All this is from an email I get from the Rethinking Schools group. They recommend a book: The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border & Mexican Immigration to help school kids understand the issue. Sounds like I need to read it too.

"How can teachers help their students make sense of the raging immigration debates? Rethinking Schools has just published THE LINE BETWEEN US: TEACHING ABOUT THE BORDER AND MEXICAN IMMIGRATION by Rethinking Schools editor, Bill Bigelow. The book incorporates role plays, stories, poetry, improvisations, simulations, and video to show how to engage students in thinking critically about immigration. The book explores the history of U.S.-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it demonstrates how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life.Ira Shor, who co-authored "A Pedagogy for Liberation" with Paulo Freire, says that, "Bill Bigelow has written a wonderful book on critical teaching, filled with examples, resources, and how to transform theory into practice. With ingenuity and integrity, Bigelow pushes to the limits of what's possible in public education." And Luis Rodriguez, acclaimed author of "Always Running," says, "This is exactly what we need."