by Melissa Garrett Davis The following article is the first in a series, Tracking the Immigration Debate. This week we are cross-posting
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Echoes of Empire in the Immigration Debate. The people making the decisions about immigration use it as a political contrivance; its solutions in name are solutions to symbolic and electoral problems. Each potential humanizing improvement is met with a provision
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Echoes of Empire in the Immigration Debate. The people making the decisions about immigration use it as a political contrivance; its solutions in name are solutions to symbolic and electoral problems. Each potential humanizing improvement is met with a provision based on a rollback of reason. Nowhere do we see
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Join the National Day of Action on April 10, 2013 and urge congress to reform our nation’s immigration laws. People of faith and good will are gathering in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to rally and visit with members of congress. Support their efforts by calling your representatives that day and
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Aaron Stauffer is a student at Union Theological Seminary, New York, coordinator of the Student Christian Movement – New York City, and Associate Director, Religions for Peace. The intersection of citizenship and immigration is finally coming to the fore of national conversations. President Obama in his State of the Union
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Greg Sullivan is program director of Irate & First Friends, an organization that advocates for changes to immigration policy and visits immigrants in four New Jersey detention facilities. Expectation is high that we will finally have comprehensive immigration reform in 2013. It is much less clear, however, what that reform
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What Christians Can Contribute to the Immigration Debate Teresa Waggener is co-manager of the Office of Immigration Issues of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) From creation to revelation, the Bible bears witness to God’s deep and abiding love for humanity. A condition of our humanness reflected throughout the Bible is that
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Sung Yeon Choi-Morrow is a National Organizer for Interfaith Worker Justice. The following article is the third in a series, Tracking the Immigration Debate. This week we are cross-posting with our partner site, ecclesio.com. Movements are not lofty things we only learn about in history books or from PBS programs.
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How God and “Deferred Action” Hastened Hope for One Undocumented Immigrant The following article is the second in a series, Tracking the Immigration Debate. This week we are cross-posting with our partner site, ecclesio.com. The author’s name is withheld for privacy in this article. For twenty years, I have lived
Moreby Melissa Garrett Davis The following article is the first in a series, Tracking the Immigration Debate. This week we are cross-posting with our partner site, ecclesio.com. Melissa Davis is co-manager of the Office of Immigration Issues of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) But our citizenship is in heaven, and it
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Let’s Start the New Year with Hope and Justice for Aspiring Citizens ACTION ALERT: Send a postcard to your senators By Melissa G. Davis, Co-Manager of the PC(USA) Office of Immigration Issues Senator Rand Paul’s unmistakable voice called to me early one morning in November: “we need a pathway
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