Immigration

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

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

'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.

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

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.

'Jose Illegal' is a Lie

Melanie Weldon-Soiset 8-07-2009

It's an e-mail to make your blood boil.

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!

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

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.

Global Warming Will Mean Migrant Crises

Robert Bolognese 7-31-2009

The planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and this will have enormous impact: By the middle of this century, an estimated 150 to 200 million people may become permanently displaced due to ris

Gates Arrest Analysis Cliff Notes

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 7-28-2009

Audio of the 911 call that brought Sgt. James Crowley to the home of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Demanding Justice for the People that Harvest our Food

Melanie Weldon-Soiset 7-28-2009

Last weekend I watched the documentary Food, Inc. and it left me inspired in a surprising way

Mr. Obama, Our Immigration Enforcement Policy Perpetuates Racial Profiling

Allison Johnson 7-23-2009

While watching Barack Obama's health care press conference last night, I wasn't surprised when he took a question regarding the arrest and subsequent media uproar surrounding his good friend, Henry

Immigration Policy: Where's the Love?

Anne Dunlap 7-14-2009

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Let the Little Children Come: Scripture and the DREAM Act

Matthew Soerens 7-09-2009

Throughout the Old Testament, we find God's repeated command to care and look out for immigrants.