With Passover just around the corner and the Exodus on our minds, consider how our nation’s immigration laws and policies are playing out in our own community - from workplace raids and heightened enforcement, to in-state tuition for undocumented college students. Are U.S. immigration policies in need of fundamental change? How does our deportation policy measure up to international human rights standards?

Rachel E. Rosenbloom, a member of Eitz Chayim, is a Supervising Attorney at the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. She has been active in immigrants' rights work for many years and worked as a union-side labor lawyer. From 1997 to 1999, she was Executive Director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice.