Editor’s Note: This post originally ran on www.immigrationimpact.com What is our obligation as a country to the unaccompanied child migrants at our border? This seemingly straightforward question is frequently lost among the political debate surrounding the humanitarian challenge at our southern border. In a recent Senate homeland security committee hearing, several senators focused only on […]Continue Reading
Editor’s Note: Another great post from www.immigrationimpact.com The reasons why so many unaccompanied children from Central American nations are trying to make their way to the United States are not simple. There are the abysmally high murder rates, escalating gang violence, and grinding poverty which prevail in some Central American countries. There are the family […]Continue Reading
  Editors Note: This post originally appeared on www.immigrationimpact.com, which features other insightful articles by Amy Grenier.  The U.S. is experiencing a growing humanitarian crisis as thousands of children arrive at our southern border after making the harrowing journey from Central America and Mexico to the north. The number on unaccompanied minors arriving has risen at […]Continue Reading
      Editor’s note: This is a spoken-word poem by Tim Isaacson about his experience at the recent Americans for Reform event in Washington, D.C. It originally appeared on Tim’s blog, Dividing Walls. Permission was given to repost it. I’m journeying back to Washington DC to plead for immigration re-form with […]Continue Reading
I spent most of last week in Jackson, Mississippi, on a retreat with some good friends from the Christian Community Development Association, hosted by the John M. Perkins Foundation.  Dr. Perkins, who is now 81 years old, is one of my heroes.  Born into a sharecropping family in Mississippi, Dr. Perkins grew […]Continue Reading
Guest Blog by Natalie Burris   American evangelical Christians are known for promoting family values.  In fact, an entire evangelical organization, Focus on the Family, dedicates its multi-million-dollar yearly budget to supporting marriage and children, as well as sanctity-of-life issues, such as eliminating abortion.   The current immigrant debate can play an important […]Continue Reading

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Guest Blog by Brynn Schmidt   I lead a team at our church that serves one of the poorest schools in our community and county, with a large population of children from undocumented families. I have seen firsthand the effects that poverty and fear within the undocumented community, have on the children, and it breaks […]Continue Reading
I held a one week old baby boy tonight. He is perfectly beautiful and I was instantly in love. He’s just a little guy, weighing in at just over 6 pounds. He has all this hair and likes to pucker his big lips. His name is JJ and he is what many sadly refer to as an “anchor baby”.Continue Reading
One of every five children in the United States lives in an immigrant family. The majority of these children will be life-time resident of the U.S. and their presence will affect the basic institutions of society. Children are “the least of these.”Continue Reading
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