Rescuing Regina: The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death
352Rescuing Regina: The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death
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Overview
Regina Bakala found herself in just this situation ten years after escaping the Congo and settling in the United States. Upon arrival, Regina had worked with an immigration lawyer, then joyfully reunited with her husband, also a Congolese torture survivor, and had two children. Life was challenging but full of hope until the night there was a knock at the door and immigration agents burst in. They forced Regina from her home as her family watched, then locked her in prison to await deportation to certain death.
In Rescuing Regina, author Josephe Marie Flynn tells Regina’s powerful story—and how her husband, a pit-bull lawyer, a group of volunteers, and a feisty nun set aside political differences to galvanize a movement to save her. Revealing what she uncovered about US immigration policies and the dangers faced by those escaping war crimes, Flynn exposes an America most never see: a vast underbelly of injustice, a harsh detention and deportation system, and a frighteningly arbitrary asylum process. In their battle for justice, Regina and Josephe not only confronted dangerous obstacles but also reawakened emotions and traumas from the past. A compelling story of a quest for justice, Rescuing Regina is also a tale of friendship, faith, hope, and the transformative journey of two friends.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781613736586 |
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Publisher: | Chicago Review Press, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 10/01/2016 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Helen Prejean ix
Preface xi
Part I Tragedy Upon Tragedy
1 "They Took Regina!" 3
2 "Never in America" 9
3 Caring for One Another 21
4 A Rag in the Weeds 29
5 In the Eyes of the Law 39
6 Why America? 53
7 Moonlit Fog 65
8 Searching for a Lawyer 79
9 David's Tragic Past 91
10 Behind the Mask 99
Part II Wounded Warriors
11 Befriend the Fears and Angers 117
12 Good Friday 125
13 In Good Times and in Bad 131
14 Easter 137
15 "It's Hard to Be Here" 145
16 "My Children Need Me" 151
17 "They Ask Me Why I Cry So Much" 159
18 Did She Tell the Truth? 173
Part III Mobilizing for Action
19 Save Regina 195
20 It Was a Dark and Stormy Night… 203
21 Throwing Garbage Cans 211
22 Teamwork 221
23 "I Want to Help" 231
24 Let My People Go! 239
25 "Now, God, Now!" 249
Part IV Where Is Home?
26 Bless the Children 265
27 "Don't Stop Now, Girl" 273
28 2006 285
29 The Eleventh Hour 293
30 "Who Will Take Care of Us?" 299
Epilogue 313
Author's Note and Acknowledgments 315
Notes 319
Index 333