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.”
Michael J. LaRosa
Michael J. LaRosa is an associate professor of history at Rhodes College.
There are 9 articles by Michael J. LaRosa :
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March 2025
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Guest Columnists
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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 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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