This morning, our friends and colleagues with the various organizations that make up the Evangelical Immigration Table are launching an exciting new initiative called the “I Was a Stranger” Challenge. The “Challenge” is simply this: we’re asking evangelical Christians who claim that the Bible is their ultimate authority to […]Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
I’m going to make a prediction that I don’t think is mere wishful thinking: 2013 will be the year that immigration reform finally passes. I (personally) and the organization for which I work (World Relief) have been advocating for significant reforms to our nation’s immigration laws since at least 2006, when President […]Continue Reading →
A new study released by the Pew Research Center determined that Asian Americans are the nation’s fastest growing racial group. In the last few years they have overtaken Latinos as the largest group of immigrants to the U.S. Asian Americans earn the highest income of all racial groups in the United States, and are […]Continue Reading →
Which state do you think is the home to more undocumented immigrants: Arizona, New Jersey, or North Carolina? If there’s one state that we hear associated in the news with illegal immigration, it’s probably Arizona, whose harsh state-level immigration bill passed two years ago, SB 1070, inspired copycat bills in various other states and […]Continue Reading →