Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series, “Migration, Trade and Brutality: A Journey through Mexico and Central America”, written by David Schmidt regarding his travels in the summer of 2012.
Before I left home for this trip across Mexico and Central America, a friend in San Diego warned me to be […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This blog is the fourth 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 […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Kristen Bruce Earlier this year, I helped host an immigration discussion night at my university. We showed a short film I put together of undocumented immigrants and these are a few excerpts from the interviews (for privacy, names have been changed).
Tell the story of how you came to […]Continue Reading →
This week, I’m in Central America, on an eleven-day tour through Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. And, naturally, that has me thinking about the places from which immigrants come—and why. No matter how you feel about undocumented immigrants or how the U.S. government should respond to those who have migrated unlawfully, I would […]Continue Reading →
Guest blog by: Daniel Darling When I talk to Christians about immigration, most conservative hardliners root their philosophy in Romans 13, where we find the theological basis for a government’s duty and right to enforce their law. Ironically, I completely agree with this assessment, because in a fallen world (described in great detail in […]Continue Reading →
We live in a world of walls. We put up fences around our suburban homes and bars on our windows. We place razor wire around our businesses and churches. We construct walls to keep immigrants from entering our country.Continue Reading →
