"Lost in Detention" Screening & Discussion
Wednesday, December 7, 8pm, MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop

Texans United for Families & Grassroots Leadership host this screening of "Lost in Detention," an hour-long PBS Frontline expose on the immigration detention and enforcement system.  Last year, the Obama administration set new records for detaining and deporting immigrants who were inside the country illegally. The government plans to best those numbers in 2011, removing more than 400,000 people. In partnership with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop, Frontline contributing correspondent Maria Hinojosa takes a penetrating look at Obama's vastly expanded immigration net, explores the controversial Secure Communities enforcement program and goes inside the hidden world of immigration detention in “Lost in Detention.”  The screening will be followed with a discussion and call to action for a December 10th vigil outside an immigration detention center in Waco, Texas.