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Charles D. Thompson, Jr.

Teacher. Author. Filmmaker. Photographer.

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    • Rock Castle Home
    • Border Crossing 101
    • Faces of Time | Los Rostros del Tiempo
    • Homeplace Under Fire
    • Brother Towns | Pueblos Hermanos
    • Plate Tectonics
    • We Shall Not Be Moved
    • The Guestworker
  • Books
    • Going Over Home
    • Border Odyssey
    • Spirits of Just Men
    • The Old German Baptist Brethren
    • Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations
    • The Human Cost of Food
    • Maya Identities and the Violence of Place
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    • Pilgrimage to America’s Sacred Spaces (PASS)
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New York Times

Sep 07 2015

They Might Not Be People, But We Sure Need Them

An article in the New York Times (9/4/15, “Iowans Question GOP Talk on Illegal Immigration“) quotes Chuck Coghill, who runs a sign company in the rural town of Blue Grass with his wife, Michelle: “It’s a bad thing that all these illegal Mexicans are here.” He paused. “But they’re hard workers. They’re doing jobs that lazy […]

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