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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ALICE TRACEY
Daily Staff Reporter

Nearly 
every 
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, 
political allies and adversaries, 
journalists 
and 
commentators 
are painting the congressman as 
more than a memory. Dingell’s life 
and death, they say, is of utmost 
importance for our politics today.

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campus remembered 

RIYAH BASHA
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and short story reading in Bert’s Cafe

Fifty-five instructor-nominated writers share original pieces aloud at UgLi 

EMMA STEIN
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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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