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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Gerald F. Kicanas
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.
Central American migrants gather before continuing their journey on March 31 in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. (CNS photo/Jose Jesus Cortes, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Bishops call the policy dangerous and unwise and urge the administration to be more welcoming to migrants trying to enter the United States.
Central American migrants traveling with the annual Stations of the Cross caravan march to call for migrants' rights and protest the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico, Tuesday, April 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J.D. Long García
Once again, our emotions have gotten the best of us on immigration. This time, it is that caravan.
Jesús Rodríguez was deported from the United States more than two years ago; his wife and daughter remain in Vancouver, Wash. (J. D. Long-García)
Politics & SocietyFeatures
J.D. Long García
Away from the rhetoric in Washington, communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are welcoming the stranger and overcoming physical barriers.
FaithNews
Christopher Sherman - Associated Press
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.
Politics & SocietyNews
Antonio De Loera-Brust
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.