Legal Language

Jumping off Megan's post from last week, which dealt with issues of race as they relate to the current Flint, Michigan, water crisis, and my own post from last week, which dealt with the fear of authority undocumented immigrants live with on a day to day basis, I have found an article which combines these two issues. In an effort to prevent non-Flint residents from accessing the water support which had been pouring (ha) in from around the country, local authorities have been asking to see identification before they release clean water. For those without identification, this can be hugely damaging as these people are then forced to purchase their water or go without. Even more troubling is the fact that no effort has been made to reach out to those in the community who do not understand English well enough to understand what is going on. There is a story in this article about a woman who just kept drinking the tap water until only 3 weeks ago, though the crisis has been well known and talked about for much, much longer than that.

Emergency Water in Flint is Not Reaching Undocumented Immigrants