Calkins: What Mauricio Calvo wants you to understand about ICE, Memphis and what people of conscience can do
“It often feels like you’re trying to stop a train with your bare hands,” Mauricio Calvo, head of Latino Memphis, said of Donald Trump’s presidency. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Mauricio Calvo, the president and CEO of Latino Memphis, says that the arrival of ICE hasn’t just hurt his community. It threatens to turn Memphis into a “ghost town.”
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