How US Skirts Its Legal and Moral Duties to Help Haitian Migrants
Haitian migrants have been trapped in Mexico for several years under various Trump-era policies that limited, and then eliminated, the ...
Tag: Immigration
Seeing Migrants and Asylum-Seekers Clearly (Why the Immigration Crisis Is a Pro-Life Issue)
When it comes the Matamoros, Mexico, camp where nearly 2,000 migrants and asylum-seekers live, it’s difficult to see what’s really ...
ICE Deported a Woman Who Accused Guards of Sexual Assault While the Feds Were Still Investigating the Incident
The government has deported a key witness in an investigation into allegations of sexual assault at an immigrant detention center.
Three Evangelical Women See the Border Crisis for Themselves
Briana Stensrud, Heather MacFadyen, and Latasha Morrison journeyed past the headlines and across the border to engage the complex issues ...
Nearly 1,000 Children Taken From Parents Despite Order Barring Family Separations at Border
A California judge ordered the government to stop family separations in June 2018. The ACLU says the government is continuing ...
Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children
With the agency under fire for holding children in deplorable conditions and over racist and misogynistic Facebook posts, one agent ...
Bible Says Christians Must Welcome Refugees, Treat Them With Dignity
At issue in President Trump's policies are deeper questions about what it means to welcome the stranger. So, what does ...
U.S. Quietly Opening Shelters for Babies and Young Children
The federal government is quietly expanding its use of shelters to house infants, toddlers and other young asylum-seekers.
Viral Photo Shows Bodies of Dad and Daughter Who Drowned Seeking U.S. Asylum
The photo shows the bodies of a Salvadoran man and his toddler daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande after ...
‘Safe and Sanitary’ Doesn’t Mean Migrant Kids Need Soap or Sleep, Trump Gov Argues
"If you don’t have a toothbrush, if you don’t have soap, if you don’t have a blanket, it’s not safe ...
Senators Demand Investigation Into Sexual Abuse at Immigrant Children’s Shelters
Newly-disclosed HHS records reveal 4,556 allegations of sexual abuse by children in federally funded immigration facilities from October 2014 to ...
White Christians Losing Interest in Welcoming Refugees?
In a Pew survey conducted in May 2018, only 43 percent of White Protestants and 25 percent of White Evangelical ...
What History Reveals About Surges in Racist Attacks Against Jews and Immigrants
The magnitude of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre may be unprecedented, but it is only the latest in the series of ...
Hundreds of Separated Families May Get Second Shot at Seeking Asylum
Hundreds of migrant families who were separated at the border may have a come to an agreement with the federal ...
After Peaceful Sit-In, ICE Agents Storm Facility and Remove 16 Migrant Fathers
Armed ICE officers reportedly stormed the facility’s hallways and arrested more than a dozen migrant parents who had only recently ...
Why Asylum-Seekers Cross the U.S. Border Illegally
Every month, thousands of asylum-seeking families cross the Rio Grande and turn themselves in to Border Patrol rather than line ...
