Every Friday we want to offer a collection of media pieces that we’re finding provocative, vital, persuasive, prophetic, genius, infuriating, mind-blogging, and other adjectives that gesture at all things thought-provoking. Some of these posts will, of course, focus on immigration, but some will not. Some of these posts will represent the foreground of our national attention, but others will have sunk far into its background. Regardless, we hope to pass on a bit of what we’ve been reading, and what’s been capturing our attentions. If you’d like to pass on any media, please contact us at Imag2050@gmail.com. Enjoy!

• The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System (from The Applied Research Center )

• Romney Robo-Caller’s White Nationalist Controversy (from Mother Jones)

• Shades Of 1969 Berkeley In Occupy Protests (from In These Times)

• Guatemalans Elect an ‘Iron Fist’ (from Daily Grito)

• New Report Calls Out Hate Speech on Talk Radio (from Colorlines.com)

• 16 Latin American Nations Want To Challenge SC Immigration Law (from Huffington Post)

• Apple Employees Pose as ICE Agents to Look for Missing iPhone 5 Prototype (from Colorlines.com)

• NM Pueblo eyes immigration rules for residents (from Las Cruces Sun-News)

• NAACP plans nationwide protests on voter ID laws (from Wall Street Journal)

• The English Defense League’s Football Hooligan Links (from HopeNotHate.co.uk)

• Thailand: Undocumented workers exploited post-floods (from ReliefWeb.int)

• Alabama: Oppression Is Not a State’s Right (from the New York Times)