immigrants
Honduran woman vows to fight for asylum from Utah church
By Brady McCombs — July 10, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seeing other immigrant parents separated from their children at the border makes her even more reticent to return home and face a possible split from her daughters if she tried to seek U.S. asylum again.
Catholic bishops end border trip by suggesting alternative to family detention
By Jack Jenkins — July 3, 2018
(RNS) — A group of prominent Catholic bishops concluded a two-day fact-finding visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday, capping an emotional trip that included ministering to children who are separated from their parents.
Supreme Court upholds Trump’s travel ban
By Jack Jenkins — June 26, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In a 5-4 decision, the high court has upheld the president’s temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from a group of primarily Muslim-majority countries, ruling that it is within the executive branch’s power to 'suspend entry of aliens into the United States.'
Abuse of immigrant children: a state-sanctioned crime in America?
By Brian D. McLaren — June 12, 2018
(RNS ) The current administration must fully address these chilling reports, bring perpetrators to justice, prevent further abuse and discontinue this ugly scheme of family separation.
Muslim officer works with immigrants in Ohio capital city
By Yonat Shimron — March 3, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Khaled Bahgat is the police department's New American Diversity and Inclusion Officer. He joins officers around the country who have been appointed to achieve similar goals.
Germany worried about ‘imported anti-Semitism’ after immigrant protests
By Tom Heneghan — January 9, 2018
(RNS) — By adding Jews to the immigration debate, last month’s anti-Israel and anti-Jewish protests touched Germany’s most sensitive wound and prompted politicians to ask how to counter a new 'Islamic anti-Semitism.'
The tax bill: What happened to ‘family values’ and ‘pro-life’ principles?
By Dwayne Royster — December 1, 2017
(RNS) — To lavish gifts on the rich and corporations while demolishing any chance at a decent life for many other people who need help is cruel.
I can hear Jesus’ indignant response to the AGs who want to deport ‘Dreamers’
By Mark J. Seitz — July 3, 2017
EL PASO, Texas (RNS) The roles of the scribes and Pharisees are being played out again today in the campaign to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
What do we tell kids about anti-Semitism?
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 6, 2017
Let's start by calling it what it really is: Jew hatred. The belief that there's something about the Jews.....
Bavaria pushes ahead with burqa ban as elections loom
By Reuters — February 22, 2017
(Reuters) The move comes seven months before a federal election where immigration will be a prominent issue and the Bavarian conservatives that govern the regionare worried about losing votes to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Pope decries ‘populist rhetoric’ fueling fear of immigrants
By Reuters — February 21, 2017
(RNS) Francis denounced the "populist rhetoric" he said was fueling fear and selfishness in rich countries.
Security is not everything
By Tim Breene — January 30, 2017
(RNS) You have to go back to the 1970s, to the era when I was still in Belfast, to come up with a single case of an American citizen who was killed in a terrorist attack perpetrated by someone who came to the country as a refugee.
Religious leaders react to Trump’s orders on visitors and refugees
By Lauren Markoe — January 29, 2017
(RNS) The ban 'traumatizes refugees, most of whom are women and children, keeps families separated and punishes people who are themselves fleeing the terror we as a nation are rightly fighting to end,' said World Relief President Scott Arbeiter.
Jeff Sessions got it right on immigrants and the Bible
By James K. Hoffmeier — January 10, 2017
(RNS) It is ironic that the political and religious left who normally eschew treating Scripture as a source of authority when it comes to matters of public policy have suddenly dusted off their Bibles for the immigration debate.
It ain’t Copacabana, but Brazilians bring Christmas to the shores of Lake Tahoe
By Kimberly Winston — December 22, 2016
(RNS) Brazilians in the U.S. bring a little of their summertime Christmas to Northern California.
