Opinion: A Venezuelan immigrant’s experience with ICE in Memphis
Alfredo Caminata saw the United States as a safe place free from the authoritarianism and persecution he suffered in his home country. Until he was stopped by ICE agents.
Michael J. LaRosa
Michael J. LaRosa is an associate professor of history at Rhodes College.
There are 10 articles by Michael J. LaRosa :
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August 2025
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Guest Columnists
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March 2025
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Guest Columnists Opinion: For the children, educate undocumented students
“Educating children helps society to flourish. Denying education is a recipe for stagnation, more crime and increased misery for all.”
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July 2023
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Guest Columnists Guest Column: The story of how one family made Memphis home
More than 40 years ago, Doan and Mylinh Dinh fled Vietnam and established a new family here in Memphis — a city that gave them not just a chance for survival but the opportunity to thrive.
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April 2023
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Guest Columnists Opinion: Seeking refuge in America – and Memphis
“Because of the sanitation workers’ strike and the tragic killing of Martin Luther King Jr. 55 years ago, Memphis has become a welcoming place for refugees and people fleeing unimaginable horrors back home.”
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July 2020
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Guest ColumnistsOpinion: Who counts in America?
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.
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April 2020
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GUEST COLUMN
Guest ColumnistsOur pandemic workforce relies on immigrants
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.
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February 2020
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Guest Columnists Indigence among us
Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.
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August 2019
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Guest Columnists Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize this Republican Party
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.
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May 2019
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Guest Columnists Partial judges among us
About 100 years ago, two murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, captivated our nation and the world. Two Italian immigrants – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti – were accused, convicted of the crimes and executed in a Massachusetts electric chair in 1927.
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April 2019
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Guest Columnists Immigration: ‘The best problem’
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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