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Opinion: Memphians deserve a choice in how we are governed and policed

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:00:03 -0500

“The outsiders ... who think this “surge” is a wonderful idea for the city have little insight into how the deployment of a few hundred people in a city as sprawling and diverse as Memphis can effectively combat crime.”

Opinion: A Venezuelan immigrant's experience with ICE in Memphis

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:10 -0500

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.

Opinion: For the children, educate undocumented students

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:00:03 -0500

“Educating children helps society to flourish. Denying education is a recipe for stagnation, more crime and increased misery for all.”

Guest Column: The beauty of track and field

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Mon, 6 May 2024 00:16:35 -0500

“Track is unique because it is both an individual and a team sport. It is a meritocracy in which the best time wins and the fastest athletes get to perform regardless of the opinions of parents or coaches. But the competition in track is not just between runners, but most importantly within each runner too.”

Guest Column: The story of how one family made Memphis home

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:00:15 -0500

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.

Opinion: Seeking refuge in America – and Memphis

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:46:16 -0500

“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.”

Opinion: Vote no on 'needless and harmful' Amendment 1

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:00:05 -0500

“In the name of individual freedom, these business interest groups wish to create different classes of workers to keep them pitted against each other instead of working in harmony for improved conditions in the workplace.”

Opinion: Extending term limits is about a desire to stay in power

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Thu, 9 Jun 2022 22:52:03 -0500

Let’s not kid ourselves: Council’s effort to extend term limits is not about ensuring a better and more equitable government.

Opinion: Vaccine passports have long been required by schools

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Thu, 8 Apr 2021 04:00:03 -0500

At various times throughout our history, all levels of government have mandated vaccines and not once have we drifted down that slippery slope towards tyranny.

Opinion: Who counts in America?

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:01:40 -0500

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.

It's time for a radical rethinking of police structure

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Sun, 7 Jun 2020 11:09:33 -0500

We offer three suggestions for concrete steps to reduce the disconnect between our police and our community.

Our pandemic workforce relies on immigrants

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 04:00:08 -0500

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.

Indigence among us

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:24:16 -0600

Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.

Ronald Reagan wouldn't recognize this Republican Party

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:00:05 -0500

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.

Partial judges among us

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Tue, 7 May 2019 12:12:47 -0500

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.

Immigration: 'The best problem'

Bryce@donatilaw.com (Bryce W. Ashby) — Mon, 1 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0500

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.