Immigration Detention, Elie Wiesel, Value of a Consumer

Immigration Law at the Border Guests: Kif Augustine-Adams, JD, Charles E. Jones Professor of Law at the BYU Law School; Carolina Nunez, JD, Professor at the BYU Law School A town of 4,000 people in South Texas holds a key spot in the national debate over who belongs in America, and what should be done with those who don’t. There, in late 2014, the US Department of Homeland Security opened a massive detention center designed to hold more than two-thousand women and children who’d come across the border, fleeing violence and poverty in South and Central America. There are ongoing questions about the legality of detaining children and treating them like criminals. There have been allegations of human rights abuses at the South Texas detention center. For more information about volunteering at the South Texas Family Residential Center see caraprobono.org. Elie Weisel on the Power of Hope and Individual Action After a week filled with such anger and anguish in the United States – at a time of instability, violence and fear globally – let’s take solace in the words of Elie, who died on July 2. He was a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust and a powerful witness to its atrocities. In 1986, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against violence, repression and racism. Three years later, in 1989, he gave a commencement speech at Brigham Young University. A quarter of a century later, those words still resonate. Benefits of Friending a Grown-up Online Guest: Andrea Forte, PhD, Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University We’ve all experienced the awkwardness of our different social circles colliding on our social media feed. For teenagers, there’s a particular horror at the thought of mom or a high school teacher seeing everything you post on Facebook. But some new research out of Drexel University suggests teenagers stand to gain a lot from interacting with adults online. The researchers even say schools should rethink social media policies that prevent teac