With the last week of the year we are sharing the top 3 most popular blogs of the year based upon page views. We posted #3 on Wednesday, and you can find it here. Today’s blog by Matthew Soerens provides a prediction for why 2013 will be the year Comprehensive Immigration Reform is passed. […]Continue Reading →
As we look back on the year of 2012, we have been encouraged with the direction the immigration debate has taken. While the year has not been perfect by any measure—President Obama continues to deport individuals at record rates—there have been several major heartening steps. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program enacted by […]Continue Reading →
In Mexico and other parts of Latin America—and among many Latino immigrants in the U.S.— Las Posadas is an important part of the celebration of Christmas. Las Posadas is a multi-day rehearsal of Mary and Joseph’s search for lodging as they arrived in Bethlehem, as Mary was about to give birth to Jesus. People […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: This blog originally appeared on G92 on December 12, 2011. We are rerunning it today to remind us all of the true meaning behind Christmas and to encourage us to remember and welcome those who, like Jesus, have a migration story. Christmas is all about a migration story. I am not referring […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This blog is the third part of a series, “Migration, Trade and Brutality: A Journey through Mexico and Central America”, written by David Schmidt regarding his travels in Summer 2012. His first entry can be found here, and his second one here. The goal of this series is to educate and inform readers […]Continue Reading →
My wife and I spent last weekend in New York City. In addition to spending some time with good friends and seeing Rockefeller Center’s famous Christmas tree, we had the chance to explore some of the immigrant history of New York. I’m convinced that if every American adult went on the immigration history tour […]Continue Reading →
Last year my wife and I left suburban NJ for Brooklyn, NY. On a map they seem so close; it’s only in person that you realize how different they really are. Like any immigrant, I looked at my surroundings with different eyes than the locals, and, like many immigrants, it was the differences in […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This blog is the second part of a series, “Migration, Trade and Brutality: A Journey through Mexico and Central America”, written by David Schmidt regarding his travels in Summer 2012. To read his first entry click here. The goal of this series is to educate and inform readers about the reasons why immigrants come […]Continue Reading →
Here in Illinois, where I live, we’ve gained a national infamy for corrupt politics. In fact, we’ve had four former governors imprisoned in as many decades. On Wednesday, while in Washington , D.C., I got to hear from two Illinois elected officials who have each also spent time in jail—but whom I believe […]Continue Reading →
If the evangelical community is to be a leading voice in the call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR), what steps need to be taken to ignite its voice? In recent years, key leaders within the evangelical community have been instrumental in the support of versions of CIR that attempt to balance moral imperatives of […]Continue Reading →
