Bishops call the policy dangerous and unwise and urge the administration to be more welcoming to migrants trying to enter the United States.
Immigration
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We must not let fear drive our immigration debate
Once again, our emotions have gotten the best of us on immigration. This time, it is that caravan.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
What life is like on the U.S.-Mexico border
Away from the rhetoric in Washington, communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are welcoming the stranger and overcoming physical barriers.
Posted inFaith, News
Migrant caravan, raising concerns in U.S., halts in Mexico
The “Stations of the Cross” caravans began as short Eater-season protests against the kidnappings, extortions, beatings and killings suffered by many Central American migrants as they cross Mexico.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Fasting with Farmworkers: Agriculture’s #MeToo moment
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based farmworker group, led a “Freedom Fast” to draw attention to the epidemic of sexual assault and harassment of farmworker women and to the C.I.W.’s ongoing boycott of the fast-food chain Wendy’s.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A Dreamer in med school fights to stop her father’s deportation
Belsy García Manrique is a year away from realizing her dream of becoming a doctor—and her father is awaiting deportation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
An immigrant story for everyone
The familiarity of the language and the story in Andrew Krivák’s “The Signal Flame” is an homage to how people, be they siblings, friends, sons and fathers, mothers and sons or sons and lovers, communicate with each other, by word or gesture.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The true meaning behind St. Patrick’s Day
The Irish and the Mexicans, the Indians and the Cubans, the Chinese and the Dominicans: Today, we celebrate their achievements.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
San Diego bishop calls Trump’s border wall “ineffective and grotesque”
As Trump touts border wall in California, skeptics say it misses the point.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Fear of ICE keeps some participants away from Encuentro gathering
“There has been fear for years, but with the new administration, it is more severe.”