Rescuing Regina The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death

Name: Rescuing Regina The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death
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ISBN: 9781569766248

ISBN-10: 156976624X

ISBN-13: 9781569766248

Edition: 2011

Authors: Josephe Marie Flynn, Helen Prejean

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A decade after fleeing the Congo for the United States, having endured rape, imprisonment, and torture in her homeland, Regina Bakala found herself locked in a U.S. prison facing deportation to almost certain death. This harrowing true story of an asylum seeker and young mother of two tells how her husband, a feisty nun, a pit bull lawyer, and a group of volunteers set aside political differences to galvanize a movement to save Regina. Their struggle reveals the vast underbelly of injustice in America's harsh detention and deportation system and frighteningly arbitrary asylum process. The book uncovers the very real dangers faced by asylum seekers in the United States, not only from the…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.518



Foreword



Preface



Tragedy Upon Tragedy



ï¿½They Took Regina!ï¿½



ï¿½Never in Americaï¿½



Caring for One Another



A Rag in the Weeds



In the Eyes of the Law



Why America?



Moonlit Fog



Searching for a Lawyer



David's Tragic Past



Behind the Mask



Wounded Warriors



Befriend the Fears and Angers



Good Friday



In Good Times and in Bad



Easter



ï¿½It's Hard to Be Hereï¿½



ï¿½My Children Need Meï¿½



ï¿½They Ask Me Why I Cry So Muchï¿½



Did She Tell the Truth?



Mobilizing for Action



Save Regina



It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…



Throwing Garbage Cans



Teamwork



ï¿½I Want to Helpï¿½



Let My People Go!



ï¿½Now, God, Now!ï¿½



Where Is Home?



Bless the Children



ï¿½Don't Stop Now, Girlï¿½



2006



The Eleventh Hour



ï¿½Who Will Take Care of Us?ï¿½


Epilogue


Author's Note and Acknowledgments


Notes


Index