In the Session
Read the Bloomberg News article, "Law Used to Prosecute Migrants in U.S. Struck Down as Racist," by Robert Burnson, and work together to answer the following questions:
- List the citation for the judge's decision.
- Can you find the decision online?
- List the citation for the law the decision finds unconstitutional.
- Can you find the text of the law in the U.S. code online? (Hint: Which title of the code covers immigration?)
- Who is the immigration activist quoted in the article?
- What organization do they work for?
- What is that organization's position on immigration?
- How is that organization funded? (hint: look at the ProPublica nonprofit explorer)
- How would you try to determine if the article's assertion that this activist is representative of immigrant activist reaction to this decision on social media is accurate?
- Find a longer article about the same decision from a reputable news organization. List one thing the longer article tells you that this one did not.
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