February 2012

While I was shuttling between basketball, soccer and theater last Saturday afternoon, I got a call from my husband who said, “You have to listen to this story on the radio.”  Over the groans of the teenagers in the car, I flipped from Top 40 to NPR, but the girls fell silent as they became drawn into the story about the real world impacts of Alabama’s new immigration law.  They listened to how a Mercedes Benz executive was detained because he didn’t have all his documents and how ordinary citizens now feel empowered (or obligated) to question the status of someone buying bread or going to church.  The girls kept asking, “Why don’t Congress and the President just fix this?”  All I could say was, “Good question."