Community members have stepped up with carpools, food deliveries, school patrols and policy advocacy

Noticias en español sobre política, inmigración y asuntos comunitarios para los latinos en Carolina del Norte.

A high school teacher writes that headlines about immigrants don’t match reality. So he wrote a book about how the Durham, N.C., community rallied behind one particular immigrant facing deportation.

"Stopping the Deportation Machine" chronicles the story of Wildin Acosta, an undocumented student in Durham, who faced deportation in 2016.

Stopping the Deportation Machine: One Immigrant Student's Arrest and the Kids Who Took on Washington to Get Him Back - Kindle edition by Christopher, Bryan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Stopping the Deportation Machine: One Immigrant Student's Arrest and the Kids Who Took on Washington to Get Him Back.

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