Immigration

'You Shall Not Oppress an Immigrant'

Anne Dunlap 10-16-2009
These remarks were presented on October 13, 2009 at a press conference in Aurora, CO urging Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) to take a public stand in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.
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Scripture's Role in the Immigration Debate

Seth Hoy 10-16-2009

For many years now, religious leaders and diverse faith groups have contributed much to the ongoing immigration debate.

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Love Casts Out Fear, Not Immigrants

Jose Morales 10-14-2009
What is at the core of the immigration issue? What is the driving force of the debate? I say it is fear.

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Scripture and History Remind Us That We Are All Immigrants

Lynne Hybels 10-08-2009
Nearly five years ago my friends, Hector and Gabby and their five kids, entered the U.S. legally from Mexico in order to join the pastoral staff at my church, Willow Creek.
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Notorious Arizona Sheriff has Federal Immigration Enforcement Role Revoked

Ian Danley 10-08-2009
Living in Maricopa County, Arizona, we are used to seeing our http://blog.sojo.net/2009/03/12/action-alert-victory-department-of-justi..."
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Stopping Anti-Immigrant Violence at its Ideological Roots

Cesar Baldelomar 10-07-2009
November 8, 2009 will mark the one-year anniversary of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcello Lucero's brutal murder at the hands of seven high school teens in the infamously anti-immigrant Suffolk County,
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The Financial Barriers to Legal Immigration

Matthew Soerens 10-02-2009
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service
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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of our Country

Jim Wallis 9-29-2009
With an issue like health, deeply personal, but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debat
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'Loving Thy Neighbor': People of Faith Speak Out against Unjust Immigration Laws

Allison Johnson 9-25-2009
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: A Visual Feast with a Side of Social Commentary

Edward Gilbreath 9-21-2009

I have to admit, I wasn't expecting much when I first took my seat in the theater to preview Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a 3-D animated comedy based on the popular children's book.

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A Choice for Catholic Bishops: Confrontation or Engagement?

John Gehring 9-21-2009
Catholic progressives are not the only faithful people worried about the dangers posed by some U.S.
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Human Trafficking and the Average Joe

Julie Clawson 9-11-2009

So a friend of mine, Shelton Green, has started an organization to help fight human trafficking -- What's Your Response.

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Three Reasons Latina/os Should Not Boycott the U.S. Census

Beverly Pratt 9-08-2009

I am a Latina sociologist and an activist-in-training who has spent substantial time with scholars and activists studying U.S. Latina/o communities from both professional and personal viewpoints.

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A More Noble Way

Joel C. Hunter 9-01-2009

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. —Barbara Johnson

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The Truth about Immigrants and Health-Care Reform

Allison Johnson 8-17-2009
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My Experience of U.S. Health Care as a Recent Immigrant (Part I)

Gareth Higgins 8-10-2009
Regular readers will know that in the past year, I embarked on a genuinely life-altering journey. I emigrated to the United States, got married, and now make my home in North Carolina.
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'Jose Illegal' is a Lie

Melanie Weldon-Soiset 8-07-2009
It's an e-mail to make your blood boil.

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Prayer Vigil at the Detention Center

M. Daniel Carroll R. 8-06-2009
I am a seminary professor. Activism is not something that comes naturally to me, but I am learning!
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When Local Police Do Immigration Enforcement, the Community Suffers

Julie Peeples 8-03-2009
Two contrasting images recently brought into focus a growing chasm: a forty-something man in jeans and T-shirt squeezing the microphone at a community forum on immigration, face tight with anger a
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Postville: One Year Later

Joey Ager 8-01-2009

In May, hundreds of people returned to tiny Postville, Iowa, to mark the first anniversary of the largest immigration raid in U.S.

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