Immigration

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.

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.

Joel C. Hunter 9-01-2009

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

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

I am a seminary professor. Activism is not something that comes naturally to me, but I am learning!
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
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.

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

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

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

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.

Matthew Soerens 7-09-2009
Throughout the Old Testament, we find God's repeated command to care and look out for immigrants.
Allison Johnson 6-26-2009
Yesterday, President Obama met with key legislators to discuss the details of moving comprehensive immigration reform legislation this year.
I am heartened by a new analysis of data from a 2006 Pew Research Center poll, which indicates that people who go to c
Bill Mefford 6-17-2009
As things begin to heat up on the immigration debate in Congress, the role of the church will be significant.
Jim Wallis 6-11-2009

The time has come for comprehensive immigration reform. After several failed attempts in past years, the president has promised it and the White House is showing a clear commitment to it.

Laurel Frodge 6-01-2009

Sin Nombre, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Focus Films.