July 23, 2012
Fighting Bob Radio live Thursday: tune in and call in
By David Giffey
Christine Neumann-Ortiz, founding executive director of Voces de la Frontera, Milwaukee, and Greg Boos, founder of Cascadia Cross-Border Law, Bellingham, Washington, are guests on Fighting Bob Radio 11 a.m. to noon, Thursday, July 26.
Voces de la Frontera (VDLF) is a low-wage and immigrant workers’ center and a leading voice for immigration reform. Current VDLF campaigns include supporting the independent Palermo’s Workers Union strike against the Milwaukee frozen pizza maker. Palermo has attacked the union effort with threats of deportation against union supporters by bringing in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to weed out union backers.
VDLF also joined with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as a plaintiff in successfully blocking Wisconsin’s new voter ID requirement. The law put in place by Scott Walker and the Republican-dominated state Legislature in 2011 was found to create a “substantial impairment of the right to vote” guaranteed by the state Constitution in Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan’s decision July 17. Flanagan’s decision disarms the oppressive voter ID law that would have affected hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin voters and seriously hampered voting rights.
The FightingBob.com radio guests will also discuss a major buildup in Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) personnel and what it means for millions of Americans living within 100 miles of U.S. boundaries, an area said to include 84 percent of Wisconsin population.
Boos, through his immigration law firm in the Pacific Northwest, has long expertise on border security and immigration-related issues. He is a leading advocate of human rights and questions the practices of border patrol policing authority, which extends 100 miles inland from the entire U.S. boundary and covers two-thirds of the nation’s population.
While the border patrol is already the largest law enforcement agency in the U.S., thousands of new agents will be hired and trained thanks to increased federal funding. A border patrol recruitment effort is planned for September in Wisconsin, according to a CBP announcement.
Tune in to the radio show online at blogtalkradio.com/fightingbobradio.
You’ll hear the guests along with FightingBob.com founder and editor Ed Garvey and radio host Eric Schubring, public affairs director at WOJB-FM, Woodland Community Radio 88.9, Hayward. During the hour-long show, you can join in with questions or comments by calling 213-943-3485.
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