Tag: immigration
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Experience Matters
Another article I wrote for the Undocumented blog has now been posted. “Many church members are too afraid to come to church anymore.” I was attending a meeting of ministry leaders when the well-respected Hispanic pastor stood to share. He told us how the police had begun parking near their church building on Sunday mornings,…
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Deportation Places Thousands of Children in Foster Care
Not that it was needed, but a report yesterday from the Applied Research Center provides yet more evidence of the devastation caused by our country’s deportation policy. This time the focus is on the children of those deported, over 5,000 who are now housed in the foster care system with no clear pathway to reunite…
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Sacrificing Their Lives to Work
At 17 he went to look for another future. He left his friends from the Instituto Nuevo Amanecer, where he was a junior, behind in Honduras. He left his passion for soccer, the evangelical church where he used to sing, his siblings—Wilfredo, 25, and Iris, 19—and he left Juana, his mother. He took with him…
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The Sabbath, the Stranger, and Commodification
An article I wrote about the Sabbath and undocumented immigrants is now up at UnDocumented.tv. Does anyone keep the Sabbath anymore? I’ve come to the conclusion that the fourth commandment is the most ignored of the Ten Commandments. If we did keep Sabbath, I wonder how our thoughts about our undocumented neighbors might change. The…
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Weekend Reading
The Atlantic has compiled a list of online resources to track developments from the Japanese earthquake. If the allegations are even mostly true, it’s infuriating to know that people live in fear in America of this sort of scenario. According to congregants’ legal testimonies gathered by the coalition, agents banged against the side of the…
David W. Swanson 