[applause] in my role today i am wearing two hats one as the director for human rights of children, and the cochair of the newly appointed committee of students of layla. I want to provide a bit of context as to why we invited everyone here faculty, students, staff and a few members of our community here today. Please let me know if im speaking too quickly because i would love to get through this so you can hear everyone. The issue is face today are intrinsically linked to human rights and childrens rights. It promotes the notion that children are not passive objects of carer were Charity Societies and governments have the ability to protect the social and political and civil rights. This includes the right to be safe him of the right to education and the right to family. This right to the framework is also tied to the social justice with bedrock principles being one of acceptance and affirming dignity of all persons. Advancing social justice acquires a full participation of the community of all members of society regardless of legal status. This also means that we address the factors that drive people into situations of vulnerability. Leo university has several efforts underway to improve the conditions for undocumented students on campus and i would like to highlight this with you. Along with 100 catholic president supporting Immigration Reform for citizenship this is profound. The school of medicine was the First Medical School in the nation to openly accept undocumented students and provide ways to support them financially. Also very exciting. And the university has university has been part of a National Research project across several just looks cool looking at the needs of students across campus. This has developed training with faculty and staff to support undocumented students on campus. Most recently, new scholarship the magic scholarship, was created to support undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need but do not qualify for federal aid. The scholarship was championed by students and their Student Government leaders. This is all very exciting and i think its important to demonstrate again the work that we are at doing on this issue. And as i mentioned earlier today, my role here in has also been busy recently appointed cochair and we have named it the Dreamer Committee to implement recommendations of an earlier form to University Committee and undocumented students. I have the pleasure of cochairing this committee with my colleague at the medical school and one of her charges under this committee is to empower staff and faculty, students and Community Members and their families. With that, it is my pleasure to introduce our guest speaker today margaret is the author of two books and her newest book detained and deported. Stories of immigrant families under fire. She is an Award Winning author and a longterm journalists reporting on the arizona and mexico borderlands. Her work has been published in the Washington Post and many regional and local publications. Her newest book detained and deported stories of immigrant families under fire is heart wrenching and hopeful. She reports on corporations and systems profiting from violations of Human Dignity and human rights. The deportation and detention of undocumented individuals. With many of these Rights Violations occurring what i would call hidden in plain sight within american borders. She beautifully profiles the activist and most importantly the survivors of these flawed systems and the rich lives that these individuals lead as members of the community and family members and his workers and students and dreamers. She will provide a big talker approximately 45 minutes which includes meetings from her new and important book and hopefully we have time for a healthy discussion afterwards and she has also agreed to stay and sign her book for those that would like copies and we have a bookstore available in the hallway for those who would like to purchase any of her books area please join me in welcoming her to the podium. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much that was such a nice introduction. And i have to tell you a few weeks ago i met some of those medical students that she was mentioning. The undocumented medical students at the school of medicine and i was doing my book at a local independent bookstore and casually in the q a afterwards people asking what you think about the dreamers and i said it was up to me we would send them all to medical school. And you know i said look at this room all baby boomers in here we need these people to take care of us in our old age. Just off the top of my head. So let the signing portion afterwards this whole group of young people with these came up to talk to me and they said you were talking about us. We are students and we are enrolled in medical school at Loyola University in chicago. And i just cant tell you how amazing and wonderful that was and how much it broadens my heart. And i congratulate you for being in the forefront in doing the kind of work. So thanks also to katherine for bringing us here and to dorothy as well, for being so helpful in bringing me here and also id love to say that im thrilled to have my son here who lives in chicago and i havent even christmas. So its a true pleasure. And if you read my book, he is an excellent researcher and copy editor and ive made good use of his skills in writing this book and he also knows how to calm me down because he has known me for his whole life. And so what im going to do is start off by doing a reading from the introduction to kind of give you the gist of what the book is about. And then we can talk a little bit and i would love to close with another reading from the book to tell you about a specific case that is heart rending as so many of these stories arent. And can everyone hear me all right to im used to talking with a microphone and so i just want to make sure. Okay, this is from the introduction of detained and deported. She sat in her prison scrub and watched the family gather all around her. Husbands are reconnecting with lives and sisters with sisters and mothers with children. It was a sunny sunday in april and the family had flocked to the Detention Center. A jury for profit immigration facility in rural arizona to visit their detained loved ones. And as if she were imagining never letting him go. They have that had brought the little boy spoke to her sister as the child snuggled in his mothers embrace. And imprisoned father sat across the table from his wife clutching her hands. They were trying to talk but their 4yearold daughter who is hungry and tired was below. None of the families had any privacy in the packed room and an impassive guard presided over the reunion keeping a close watch on the mothers and fathers dressed in jailbird scrubs. The visiting room is bleak and windowless but by clearing prison lights. It was a beautiful spring day outside but no rays of sunlight pierced the cinderblock walls. Alone among the detainees yolanda had no family visiting, just me a writer that had come to hear her story. She was glad to be out of her prison unit and she was full of smiles and determined to be cheerful. Yet as she looked at the other detainees she looked at the other kids was fully as she recounted it. During the two years she had spent locked up, she had seen her two little girls and her little boy only sporadically. The children are all american citizens who lived in a distant suburb northwest of phoenix. They came to visit their mother only when a relative or friend to spare the time to drive the 200mile round trip. The last time that she had seen him was two months before it. Yolanda was 32 years old and she had slipped into arizona from mexico 17 years before. He spoke flawless english. Even if she had no papers she almost never had any difficulty finding a job. Until two years ago she had never had trouble with immigration. But the father of her two younger children regularly beat her and one attack triggered a series of disasters that eventually landed her in jail and not attention. And i was going to show you a few pictures of the Detention Center this is the outside of the prison that she is in. This gives you the gist of what it feels like inside of there. And her abusive acts as the two kids and yolanda was facing deportation. She could have accepted removal to mexico right away. But if she were deported she was going to lose her children. So she stayed in the present month after month biting her case and hoping to persuade a judge to overturn the deportation order. Paying to get back to her daughters and also her son. Her spirit flew just once. The last time the kids came to see her, her 5yearold looked at her suspiciously. He said you dont look like my mother he said. Her own child is starting to forget her. And on the mexican side of the border we saw one individual who is just as worried about his kids. He was a 25yearold landscaper from phoenix and i met him early one hot july morning to steps from the international line. They were one of 60 deportees eating beans and rice and humble dining hall run by an order of nuns. [inaudible] born in veracruz you came to think that the age of eight years old and lived there ever since and he spoke perfect english. He and his wife had two small children a boy of four years old and a baby girl both of them were u. S. Citizens. Gustavo had been arrested in phoenix and detained by i. C. E. He rotated through several Detention Centers in arizona and colorado before being tossed back over the border into no boss. He had always worked hard to support the children. What was their mother doing now he wondered, without his wages coming in. And he was staying in the shelter so he would have to leave soon. Novells shelters did not have the ability to house anyone longer than three days. They would have to move on. His mother in phoenix had advised him to go back to veracruz. But he had no intention of returning to a place where everyone was a stranger. He knew what he needed to be. With his children at home in phoenix. And the way to get back over the border and through the arizona desert, the journey would be careless in more ways than one. He could die out there in the heat as so many have done before him and if he made it through he ran the risk of arrest. They catch me i get 10 years in jail he said. And so the human impact of these detentions and deportations cannot be overstated. Families have been torn apart. Mothers and fathers have been turned into single parents. Breadwinners have disappeared. Many children, u. S. Citizens have lost one or both parents and him have ended up in foster care. In the First Six Months of 2011 the year that he first turned up no fewer than 46,000 deportees were mothers and fathers whose children were left behind in the United States. And as i was researching this book i met many of these displaced people. Both in shelters and in Detention Centers in arizona. They were taxi drivers fruit pickers, can auction workers and fast food servers waitresses and hotel housekeepers. Some had lived like third world individuals in the United States speaking spanish, or living in holy mexican communities doing the lowest of low paid labor. And others were indistinguishable from american citizen, dreamers, young and educated, had been in the United States since they were children and lived a more typically american life. They had gone to public school, graduated from high school and aspired to go to college. Then there were the immigrants who lived for years in chicago or florida or virginia and got tripped up at the border after going back to mexico or guatemala to visit family members. Most determined were their parents separated from their kids. [inaudible] and i rarely saw the kids lost their parents but when i did it was painful. The little girl that i saw crying under the table in the family visiting room the day that i visited her haunts me still. Her name is jacqueline and she was an american citizen and she was four years old. It struck me that this tiny child was bearing the burden of her countrys immigration these on her own small shoulders. And the weight of it was absolutely crushing her. Confronted with a scary jail and the angry guards or the unhappy mother and a father who had become a stranger to her. She responded the only way that she could. She threw herself down onto the floor and clenched her fist and she wailed. And so that is what this book is about, the two sides of this issue detention and deportation. I thought that i would play a little bit about how i came to this topic. As catherine mentioned my first book my first book was primarily about the many migrants miles from where i live in arizona and it was also about the trajectory of the journey and the militarization of the border the impact of that on american citizen. And the final chapter of the book i started moving into the current topic. These three young people all work for Panda Express. Im sure that some of you have had some of that Delicious Food in your airport travels. And tucson is not well known for big immigration raids. But for some reason there was a big raid at the Panda Express not too far from where i live about a mile away. And it all started with this young woman that you see here. She had been working there fulltime for four years and she made so little money that she could not feed her child. So she made the mistake of applying for food stamps for him and she used a fake Social Security number and that is how she got caught, you know the number bounced back from the department of economic security. And so the state conducted an investigation at the department of Public Services and they also go after dealers and the highway patrol, and they are bigtime Police People they launch Something Like a sixmonth investigation and i have a papers this high of the amount of time and after that they took into investigating this young woman. And they had listed every wage that she had earned earned and over four years it was less than 50,000 not surprisingly. And so they planned a raid. And they also at the same time became suspicious of the other Panda Express workers and 12 out of 14 of them were undocumented and the employee said that they were totally complicit but of course they denied it and knowing that they were undocumented. But what happened is that they went to the trailer on the south side of tucson and they conducted this where the police cars came out, the sirens, she was asleep in bed with her infant son who is eight months old and locally she was living with family. The police hauled her out of there and they wouldnt even allow her to change out of her pajamas. The child was screaming in her arms and her sister took the little boy and she did not see that little boy again for five months. There are two other young people that also had children and among the 12 workers who were arrested there were 12 young children. There was a raid at later that day at the store itself and they came right before the lunch rush and surrounded in the parking lot with all of these Police Officers and they hauled out all of the workers in their little outfits and their hats and took them down to the Border Patrol where they were charged with felony impersonation of another human being. They had a really great lawyer and so they got off on a misdemeanor but once they settled the criminal case, this is a typical trajectory, they had to go to the Detention Center because they were undocumented immigrants. So most of them were deported pretty quickly but the three of these had been brought to the United States and they all three had very good lawyers and when i interviewed her leadership and a picture of my daughter in her house and her eighthgrade yearbook which was a Pretty Amazing thing. They were about the same age, right about the time that my daughter had just gotten her College Degree and that is when she was released from jail. So that was a wrenching thing for me. I used to see her on my local playground. They were all eventually permitted to stay and they are still in the United States now. But i have a nice quote. I went to visit her five months after this happened when she was back at home and her child was terrified of her. I sat with her in her kitchen the grandmother was holding freddy and i was there and freddy was looking really upset, he would not allow his own mother to touch him. Eventually it worked out and he took to his mother again. But who knows what kind of psychological wound that would make him a small child. And the nice quote that i had from her at the time she said they took us away from our children and separated us from our families and i will never forget. It was only for working and they treated it as a crime. And so one of the things ive learned from all three of these people was that it was really difficult for them to be in the Detention Center. Thats when i started hearing about detention in arizona. It wasnt just the harshness or the confinement, omar was very athletic guy he was a star Soccer Player in high school and all three of those kids have High School Diplomas from schools in tucson. The confinement was difficult, the harsh treatment by the guards come of the abusive language. The two things they said that bothered him the most were being treated like a criminal and these were people that had always lived good lives and had worked hard and could be treated and it was just very omar went into a depression and it was really overwhelming. But apart from that vein that was the worst from them was the separation from their families as well as the