2013 Social Action Summer Institute
BorderLinks Experiential Trip Registration
June 17, 2013
Social Action Summer Institute
Tucson
Monday, June 17th, 2013
Leader: 1 BorderLinks staff
14 SASI Participants
8:30am Leave UA
9:00am Tour of BorderLinks
9:30am Political Cartoons activity
11:30am Lunch
12:45pm Leave for Courthouse
1:30pm Operation Streamline
3:30pm Visit with Public Defender Laura Conover
5:00pm Visit San Juan Immigration Center
6:00pm Return to UA
The Political Cartoons Activity helps us to explore the context of immigration in the U.S. Using politically controversial cartoons, we’ll discuss the history of immigration to the U.S. as well as several current border and immigration issues, thinking critically about the messages about immigration found in popular media.
Operation Streamline, began in Tucson in January of 2008, and is a zero-tolerance program targeting illegal entrants apprehended along the Arizona border with Mexico. Based on other initiatives begun in Del Rio, Texas and Yuma, AZ, the initiative aims to process 100 migrants with misdemeanors and deport them, thus setting the stage for stiffer and longer penalties for repeat offenders.
The mission of the Federal Public Defender’s Office is to ensure that the right to counsel, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and the Criminal Justice Act, is enforced on behalf of those who cannot afford counsel and requisite defense services.
The San Juan Immigration Center is a center run by St. John’s Catholic Parish in Tucson