immigration law
Anti-immigrant pastors may be drawing attention – but faith leaders, including some evangelicals, are central to the movement to protect migrant rights
By Brad Christerson, Robert Chao Romero, and Alexia Salvatierra — February 26, 2024
(The Conversation) — Religious beliefs can provide motivation, hope and endurance in the long and often discouraging task of mobilizing people for social change.
Fueled by unprecedented border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts
By Giovanna Dell'orto — January 17, 2024
MIAMI (AP) — About 261,000 cases of migrants placed in removal proceedings are pending in the Miami court — the largest docket in the country.
DC’s faith communities rally to protect bused-in immigrants
By Emily Neil — November 22, 2022
(RNS) — Organizing efforts in Washington have become a blueprint for other cities.
Why Congress needs to act on immigration: It’s our nation too
By Luis Velasquez — March 11, 2021
(RNS) — I’ve opened my heart to America; I pray America will do the same for me.
Turning her Baha’i faith into precedent, lawyer helps women gain asylum
By Cathleen Falsani — October 2, 2018
(RNS) — Layli Miller-Muro was spurred by her third-generation Baha'i faith to become an advocate for immigrant women fleeing gender-based violence.
An ethical analysis of the ‘New Sanctuary Movement’
By David P. Gushee — March 19, 2017
Are advocates of the New Sanctuary Movement meaning to call for civil disobedience?
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