VICTORY!!! Pedro Guzman is free!

Glenn Fogle, the Guzmans’ immigration attorney, explains it this way: After almost 19 months after being arrested by an ICE “Fugitive Operations Unit” at his home in North Carolina in front of his wife and then 2 year old son, on a removal order he did not even know about, Pedro Guzman has been granted [...]

Georgia’s major faith groups to walk six days in solidarity with immigrants

As a part of my DriveFast for Lent I will be participating in this 6-day, 50-mile pilgrimage.  Want to join me on any or all of these days? First interfaith Pilgrimage for Immigrants, April 5–10, spans from Gainesville to Atlanta   ATLANTA – Hundreds of faithful from diverse world religions will unite in a prayerful [...]

In Memoriam – Roberto Martinez Medina, age 39

On March 11, the first detainee that I am aware of has died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and while being detained at the Stewart Detention Center, owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Roberto Martinez Medina, age 39, from Mexico was an unlicenseable, immigrant worker who was being [...]

City Alarmed by Police Impounding Cars of Undocumented Immigrants

“They are really scared because they feel their cars might be taken away when they are picking up their kids from school or coming home from work,” Pulido said. “And there’s no way they can get a license. So what should they do? Give up driving?”

Sunday snowfall leads to mass DriveFast

By early afternoon March 1 LaGrange received an inch or two of snowfall.  Earlier that morning our family worshipped with the saints at New Community Church.  Every time I drive to church I remember when worshippers at a local Spanish-language Pentecostal church had their weekly pilgrimage to their meetinghouse interrupted by a LaGrange Police roadblock.  Even [...]