They said they’d rid the country of border-crashing “dangerous criminals, the worst of the worst.” Hard to argue with that. You don’t have a problem with the execution of the policy morphing just a smidge, do you? You’re cool with it if “the worst of the worst” got whited out (oops) on the hit list …
Punishing Runaways
I ran away from home once. I couldn’t technically be called a “runaway” since I was only five and really just walked down the street and got lost. It was my parents’ first clue that I didn’t come from the manufacture with a built-in GPS. A cop found me wandering around the neighborhood and brought …
I Was a Stranger
This is an excerpt of a heart-wrenching letter written by detainees at the infamous Delany Hall Detention Center in New Jersey. Here's the link to the remainder of it. By means of the present, we take the liberty of providing an account of the situation that thousands of immigrants are living in detention centers. In …
Immigration Policy is Complicated but How To Relate to Immigrants is Not
Now that Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed by masked, untrained, roided-up federal agents on a quest to get their quota of “dangerous criminals” off our streets without due process, it seems the issue is finally on everyone’s radar. If it’s not yet on yours, I urge you to get it there by doing …
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Wondering if the Bible Has Anything to Say About How to Treat Immigrants?
You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.Deuteronomy 10:19 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.Leviticus 19:34 ‘Cursed …
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