There’s a growing sense of optimism around the possibility of Congress actually working together on a bipartisan basis to pass some sort of an immigration reform in the coming months. Senators on both sides of the aisle say they are close to an agreement. Key Republicans in the House […]Continue Reading →
Ashley, @mixedstatus, is a United States citizen whose family has been in the United States for over 7 generations. She is married to an undocumented immigrant. Tomorrow is the day that the I-601A form is supposed to be published. We are just about ready to mail everything off, except for not having […]Continue Reading →
A month ago my husband Billy took a job in San Diego. He got on a plane a couple days later and said a temporary good-bye to Ella and me and BBQ#2. It’s a long story, which I won’t go into, but suffice it to say my husband has been […]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 →
Last Friday, the Department of Homeland Security proposed changes to the way that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service will consider certain family reunification cases. Though the complexity of the law—and what these proposed changes would do—makes it a bit confusing to understand, this proposed change is an answer to many, […]Continue Reading →
As I sat there—hour after hour—I was flabbergasted by the way that the receptionist treated the various people who arrived at the front of the line. Her standard greeting was a stern “why are you here?” (not, “good morning, how can I help you?”) and she would berate people for not knowing what and where their “A Number” was. She also did not speak Spanish; I ended up spending part of the day translating for Spanish-speaking immigrants whom she began to yell at after they did not understand her instructions.
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Guest blog by: Carl Nelson There are two important reasons why evangelicals should support immigration reform. Our current system is weakening immediate family units and the wide use of undocumented immigrants in certain industries results in their exploitation and unjust economic gains for others. I know that many evangelicals have not always been sympathetic to these […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: Matthew provided an update on this story about six weeks after this blog was first posted that he calls “Frustration, Anger, Hope & Gratitude.” Yesterday afternoon, after church, I went to jail. Last Thursday, on the way to the pediatrician with his four-week-old son, one of my […]Continue Reading →
Last Saturday, I committed myself before God, my church community, and my family and friends to take Diana Wood as my wife, “for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death.” In fact, by the time that this blog […]Continue Reading →
So our generation’s question must be, Will we extend our hands or will we show them a clenched fist? Will we side with the inflammatory anti-immigration rhetoric or will we follow the Scriptures and affirm the dignity and worth even of the “illegal” that might live next door?Continue Reading →
