As immigration status has
become an increasingly divisive
political topic in recent years,
student organizations and local
activists are working to advocate
undocumented
students
and
Washtenaw County residents.
Local activist organization,
Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition
for
Immigrant
Rights,
has
addressed issues of immigration
enforcement
by
advocating
for and providing support to
the families of undocumented
individuals
who
have
experienced raids or deportation
orders by U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
WICIR was founded in 2008
in response to a mobile home
raid in Washtenaw County. Since
then, ICE and local authorities
have conducted several raids
and local authorities, including
a 2013 raid that displaced at
least 15 individuals in Ypsilanti
Township and a 2017 raid during
which three employees at Sava’s
in Ann Arbor were detained.
William
Lopez,
WICIR
volunteer and Public Health
professor, said the organization
engages
in
anti-deportation
campaigns,
locates
missing
individuals and has implemented
an urgent-response system for
immigration-related
issues.
WICIR’s website also says the
organization
helps
educate
immigrants about their rights
and resources.
According to Lopez, another
main component of WICIR’s
work is assisting the families of
detained individuals. He said the
families of detainees have basic
needs that are often overlooked.
“People
most
often
need
food, they need diapers, they
just need the stuff of everyday
life,” Lopez said. “We focused so
much attention on deportation
that we forget the deeply human
element.”
Immigration
policies
have
shifted
over
the
course
of
WICIR’s existence. Lopez said
the Postville, Iowa raid of 2008,
which led to the deportation
of almost 400 workers, elicited
such a negative public reaction
that ICE began moving away
from large-scale work raids. The
Obama administration favored
smaller raids and collaboration
with
local
law
enforcement
officers, a decision that Lopez
said decreased trust of police
and led to a record number of
removals.
Under
the
Trump
administration,
Lopez
said,
coordination
between
immigration officials and local
police has continued. There
has also been an uptick in
workplace raids.
“With
Trump,
we
see
a return of these large-
scale work raids,” Lopez
said. “In my opinion, very
purposefully visible f lexing
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Approximately
25
students
and
faculty
members gathered at Bert’s
Cafe Monday night for the
University
of
Michigan
Library Cafe Shapiro’s first
night of a weeklong poetry
and
short
story
reading
event.
The
event
has
been
happening annually for more
than 20 years, and this year
there are a total of 55 student
writers speaking over the
course of 6 nights. Students
are invited to participate
in the event after they’ve
been nominated by their
professors.
Student
Engagement
Librarian
Amanda
Peters,
a host of the event, said the
event began in 1997 and has
only grown since. She said
one of the goals of the series
is to expand the impact of
creative writing on campus.
“It’s been going on for 22
years, and it started as part
of the University’s Year of
the Humanities and Arts,
so that was kind of a special
thing that had happened that
particular year,” Peters said.
“It had a goal to explore the
role of arts and humanities in
civic and community life. It’s
just become so much more
than that over the years.
It has become this really
amazing event for students
to come and share their work
in this informal way, but it’s
just really cool to see how it
keeps growing and growing
and we get more nominations
every year from our faculty.”
Peters
said
the
event
is a great opportunity for
undergraduate
writers
to
gain confidence reading their
work aloud to an audience
and a chance for attendees
to learn more about the
University
community
through student voices.
The
Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University
Affairs
held
its
weekly
meeting Monday afternoon,
discussing recent changes to
the University of Michigan’s
Standard
Practice
Guide
and
the
introduction
of
electronic voting into Senate
Assembly. SACUA also hosted
University Provost Martin
Philibert to speak on the new
Biosciences Initiative.
SACUA Chair Neil Marsh,
professor
of
chemistry,
urged committee members
to help with the nomination
of candidates for SACUA
in the upcoming election.
According to the committee,
only three out of the six
needed
nominations
have
been made.
“One
engineering,”
Director Tom Schneider said.
“And two LS&A’s.”
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Nearly
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retrospective
memorializing
the
late
U.S.
Rep.
John
Dingell,
D-Mich.,
remembered the 92-year-old as
a man of another era. Dingell,
first elected to the House of
Representatives in 1955, served
in Congress for 59 years in a
political career that spanned 11
presidencies.
Dingell, the longest serving
member of Congress in U.S. history,
passed away in his Dearborn home
Thursday evening after he entered
hospice care just the day before. He
was diagnosed with cancer earlier
in 2018, yet remained a force to be
reckoned with, often going viral
on his Twitter account with sharp
political quips and commentary.
A host of family and friends,
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Lawrence
Busch,
professor
emeritus
of
sociology
at
Michigan
State University, spoke to
University
of
Michigan
students and faculty Monday
evening about markets from
an economic perspective in
his presentation sponsored
by the University’s Science,
Technology
and
Society
Program.
Busch
began
his
presentation, titled “Back to
the Future: An STS Approach
to Markets,” by explaining
three
different
ways
of
examining markets. He said
markets can be examined
as an economic transaction,
as a place where politics are
enacted and as an institution.
According
to
Busch,
mainstream
economics
firms focus on the economic
transaction
approach
and
ignore
political
and
institutional examinations.
“(Mainstream economics)
simply says those approaches
aren’t
economical.
What
this allows economics to do,
I will argue, is to remove
the political from markets,”
Busch said. “At the same
time, however, as economics
does this, is that economics
is performative. We need to
examine how the theoretical
treatment
of
markets
actually influences actual
markets.”
Busch
discussed
five
propositions
throughout
the
presentation.
In
his
first proposition, “Markets
are
impure
distributive
systems,” Busch described
the perfect image of markets.
He said in actual markets,
corruption is to be found and
wages are typically biased
in respect to race, ethnicity,
gender and class.
“I want to argue that
actual markets are always
in
perfect
distributive
systems, and that untethered
markets
lead
to
massive
inequality,” Busch said. “I
want to emphasize the point
that the vast majority of the
population still buy into the
idea that markets are a pretty
good distributive system.”
In the second proposition,
“Markets do not differ in kind
from
other
institutions,”
Busch said economists are
solely concerned with the
efficiency of markets and
are
influenced
by
both
human
and
non-human
actions.
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