Below is the entire debate speech that Camilla prepared for her team’s debate on Trump’s Travel Ban, which was featured yesterday on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: http://samanthabee.com/episode/50/clip/the-rikers-debaters/
Trump’s Executive Order #13780 is unconstitutional and un-American. Not only does it promote xenophobia and Islamaphobia, it adds fuel to the radical Islamic terrorists it is supposed to protect us against. The First Amendment forbids discrimination based on race or religion. The Immigration Nationality Act of 1965 also forbids discrimination based on nation of origin. Our first point is that this is clearly a Muslim ban. Trump wants to prove it is…
The notes below are were written by some of our students at the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island.
“My anscestors were raped, murdered, enslaved, and brought to America against their/our will. Now we are being locked up and prosecuted for crimes we/I wouldn’t have committed if we were never brought here in the first place… or at least been given a fair start with the illusive 40 acres and a mile.
I like this brogram becuase it has the potential to give us as underdogs the possibility to become one POWERFUL voice.” — Tunde-Ra.
“The RDP has broadened…
The note below is written by one of our former students, Camilla Broderick, who was one of our regular debate students at the Rose M Singer Center before being released in May 2017. She will be featured on Samantha Bee’s June 7th show debating President Trump’s Executive Orders on Immigration.
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The Rikers debate team was an integral part of my stay on Rikers Island. I was honored to be picked for the public debate on the Samantha Bee show. Not only did it help me work on my public speaking skills, it opened up new opportunities for me…
