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2018
Volume 115, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

The English Journal editors invited this article’s authors to reflect on important facts and strategies for teachers and community members to know and enact as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents continue to infringe on the civil and constitutional rights of immigrant and racialized communities.

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