7 articles by Bryce W. Ashby :
Leaving undocumented people out of the census mirrors a more subtle indifference to the Latinx community here in Memphis. Recent reporting shows Hispanics are contracting 28% of all COVID-19 cases in Shelby County, while comprising only 10% of residents.
We offer three suggestions for concrete steps to reduce the disconnect between our police and our community.
Many of the heroes who are attending to the sick and dying in our hospitals are immigrants: 25% of physicians in the United States are foreign-born, and 1.5 million immigrants are employed as doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.
In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools.
In Memphis, new immigrants make up just over 5 percent of the metro population, but account for 9 percent of the area's business owners.
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