From its founding, the name of this review has signified a social and political reality that transcends the borders of the United States.
Immigration
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Washington needs to abandon the wall and focus on Dreamers
If our elected officials truly want to address immigration, they will abandon the politics of the wall and focus on real solutions, such as a clean Dream Act.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders condemn President Trump’s plan to send troops to the border
Bishops call the policy dangerous and unwise and urge the administration to be more welcoming to migrants trying to enter the United States.
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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.
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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.