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 →
I’m tired. With the momentum building for immigration reform, the past several weeks have been uniquely exhausting for me. I’ve worked more hours than I know I should, I’ve been on the road much of the past month, and I’m checking my Blackberry almost obsessively to try to stay on top of […]Continue Reading →
Last Sunday many of us gathered in our living rooms with friends to tune in to an American cultural event: the Oscars. Some of us like to watch it because it seems to be nostalgic in some way, reminiscent of old Hollywood glamour, starlets dressed in the height of fashion with well-coiffed […]Continue Reading →
God calls members of the Christian faith and other faith traditions to welcome the stranger and visit the prisoner: what better way to answer God’s calls than to visit men and women in U.S. immigration detention? Right now, over 32,000 migrants remain isolated in immigration detention facilities because there is no legally […]Continue Reading →
The sermon at my church last week focused on the passage in Luke 4 where, after earning the praise of the people of Nazareth for his “the gracious words that came from his lips,” Jesus quickly says some further things that turn the crowd against him, so dramatically so that […]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 →
This weekend, I saw Steven Spielberg’s new film Lincoln, which brilliantly chronicles the last few months of the life of the sixteenth American president. In January 1865, President Lincoln, who had just won re-election to a second term, faced two huge tasks: to end the Civil War and to guide congressional ratification of the […]Continue Reading →
The blog posts from earlier this week have given hope for the future of the immigration system in America. Comprehensive immigration reform seems to be coming because support of it proves to be good policy and good politics and because Evangelicals are becoming more concerned about this issue. In light of this perceived […]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 →
One of the stock arguments used by those against comprehensive immigration reform is that undocumented immigrants are a burden on national resources. Undocumented immigrants take “American” jobs, leach off the social welfare system, and drain tax dollars, they say. In other words, undocumented immigrants lower the national standard of living. First of all, […]Continue Reading →
