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Is an additional challenge. Thank you for your question. I want to thank the audience and please, immediately following the session reminder [applause] they will be signing books for the booster available in the signing area. Please become a friend of the festival, free of charge to the literacy programs in the community. On the mall or on the website and please join the book signing in a few minutes. Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate your interest and again, thank you to the colleagues, luis urrea and anna ochoa oleary. That. Good reading. Is great to be sure. I remember it was ...

From the 70s to the mid1990s. There is a lot of books. I think this one is looking at a post9 11, looking at this kind of rapid expansion, looking at different Civil Liberties issues and i would like to think that its you know, it covers new ground but its definitely on the shoulders of giants as they say. All this great work thats been done around border stuff for years and years and years. My other question is has there have been any interest among legislators in your book, in the issues that it has raised specifically from your work . Beto orourke is from el paso. I mean i dont know but i k...

Great. In the evenness of the reporting we need to go beyond to preach to the choir. Most of us here living in a bubble are aware of the issues that you go to new york and the east papers and you know you dont see the same type of reporting where theres very little of it and you dont see it from the perspective of the border. I dont want to say its mainstream in terms of speaking about a reality that makes even us feel as if we are out of reality. I had a person from back east tommy what you all are demanding really is kind of out of the pale in terms of the number of immigration reform. You a...

A good idea. Later on because this was a threeyear project she was no longer there. They really didnt like our project and we could do whatever we wanted. Our colleagues put in the foundation and i have to acknowledge the Ford Foundation which is funding various projects including ngos and other foundations that stepped up to the plate specifically because they are aware of the politics funding that has been ratcheted up and when i say politics of funding i refer to any Immigration Reform and all of the vested interest including the corporations that handle the Detention Centers making politic...