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A story about inner strength, community power, and healing through selfless bravery. Sister Josephe . . . leaves her readers with outrage, courage, and the dignity to dig deep, take risks, and fight for human rights. Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director, Refugee and Migrants Rights, Amnesty International USA Rescuing Regina is moving, informative, and clearly written. It makes the complex US immigration system understandable. The Bakalas story is the story of so many others in our country, and it brought me to tears. Sister Josephe inspires us to fight the impossible fight. She makes us realize that a community fighting for justice can and does make a huge difference. By saving one family, she and the Save Regina team provide a model for us all. Anna Marie Gallagher, immigration attorney, Maggio + Kattar, and President, International Detention Coalition Some books simply tell a story, but Rescuing Regina can change lives. The United Church Observer A story about inner strength, community power, and healing through selfless bravery. Sister Josephe . . . leaves her readers with outrage, courage, and the dignity to dig deep, take risks, and fight for human rights. --Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director, Refugee and Migrants' Rights, Amnesty International USA Gripping . . . [Sr. Josephe Marie Flynn] writes of [Regina's] ordeal with passion, clarity, and tenderness. --The Bay State Banner This book should be made into a movie . . . it reads like a novel even as it raises troubling questions of social justice. --The Christian Century Some books simply tell a story, but Rescuing Regina can change lives. --The United Church Observer Rescuing Regina is moving, informative, and clearly written. It makes the complex US immigration system understandable. The Bakalas' story is the story of so many others in our country, and it brought me to tears. Sister Josephe inspires us to fight the impossible fight. She makes us realize that a community fighting for justice can and does make a huge difference. By saving one family, she and the Save Regina team provide a model for us all. --Anna Marie Gallagher, immigration attorney, Maggio + Kattar, and President, International Detention Coalition [Sister Josephe] unfolds Regina's story and her own story of friendship and faith within the broader context of the desperate need for immigration reform. --Booklist Flynn's eye-opening and detailed account of what it took to win asylum for Regina Bakala . . . offers an inside look at the formidable and convoluted system faced by asylum seekers in the U.S. --Publishers Weekly This may be the rare book that the staunchest progressive and the most devout Catholic could read together. Arresting and inspiring--a must-read for people of faith, immigration activists and anyone concerned with social justice. --Kirkus Reviews [Sister Josephe] unfolds Regina s story and her own story of friendship and faith within the broader context of the desperate need for immigration reform. Booklist

Gripping . . . [Sr. Josephe Marie Flynn] writes of [Regina's] ordeal with passion, clarity, and tenderness. <i>T</i><i>he Bay State Banner</i>

Gripping . . . [Sr. Josephe Marie Flynn] writes of [Regina's] ordeal with passion, clarity, and tenderness. T he Bay State Banner

A story about inner strength, community power, and healing through selfless bravery. Sister Josephe . . . leaves her readers with outrage, courage, and the dignity to dig deep, take risks, and fight for human rights. --Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director, Refugee and Migrants' Rights, Amnesty International USA Some books simply tell a story, but Rescuing Regina can change lives. --The United Church Observer [Sister Josephe] unfolds Regina's story and her own story of friendship and faith within the broader context of the desperate need for immigration reform. --Booklist Rescuing Regina is moving, informative, and clearly written. It makes the complex US immigration system understandable. The Bakalas' story is the story of so many others in our country, and it brought me to tears. Sister Josephe inspires us to fight the impossible fight. She makes us realize that a community fighting for justice can and does make a huge difference. By saving one family, she and the Save Regina team provide a model for us all. --Anna Marie Gallagher, immigration attorney, Maggio + Kattar, and President, International Detention Coalition Flynn's eye-opening and detailed account of what it took to win asylum for Regina Bakala . . . offers an inside look at the formidable and convoluted system faced by asylum seekers in the U.S. --Publishers Weekly Gripping . . . [Sr. Josephe Marie Flynn] writes of [Regina's] ordeal with passion, clarity, and tenderness. --The Bay State Banner This book should be made into a movie . . . it reads like a novel even as it raises troubling questions of social justice. --The Christian Century This may be the rare book that the staunchest progressive and the most devout Catholic could read together. Arresting and inspiring--a must-read for people of faith, immigration activists and anyone concerned with social justice. --Kirkus Reviews

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Leader of the Save Regina Campaign, Sister Josephe Marie Flynn is cofounder and chair of the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Justice for Immigrants Committee and a member of the Global Justice and Peace Commission of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Aretired teacher, she lives in Milwaukee, where she is a spiritual director and an advocate for immigration reform. Sister Helen Prejean is the author of Dead Man Walking.A sister of the Congregation of St. Joseph,she counsels death row inmates and families of murder victims.

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