Hey, Mark and Louise! Just wanted to check in and once again thank you for everything you and all of the Catholic Workers do there at Casa Juan Diego. I cherish the time I spent serving there, and in new ways I am constantly coming to find how what I learned there is being lived… continue reading
A Former Catholic Worker, Now a Teacher, Shares with Students How the Infancy Narratives Relate to Immigrants’ Stories
February 1, 2010 by
Aliens and the Bible: Evangelical Protestant Approaches to the Undocumented
February 1, 2010 by
The author is a Catholic Worker at Casa Juan Diego, on sabbatical leave from Lamar University in Beaumont, TX Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible (2008) by M. Daniel Carroll R. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 174 pp., $16.99 (paper) The Immigration Crisis: Immigrants, Aliens, and the Bible (2009) by James… continue reading
Immigration Reform Can Wait No Longer
December 1, 2009 by
In September of 2009, Most Rev. Jose H. Gomez, Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas led a delegation of Hispanic Bishops to speak to the Congress in Washington, D.C. about the urgency of immigration reform. This article was published in the San Antonio Archdiocesan paper, Today’s Catholic. The current Congress, certainly has its hands full trying to… continue reading
Government Detention Center for Children and Families Closing: The End of the T. Don Hutto Center for Families
October 1, 2009 by
There is rejoicing in Texas because the government has announced the closing of the T. Don Hutto For-Profit Family Jail for Immigrants. Protests and lawsuits against the privatized 512-bed detention center run for the government by the Corrections Corporation of America focused on its cruel treatment of children who were imprisoned there in substandard living… continue reading
An Inside Job: Our Best and Brightest, Not Illegals, Pushed Us To the Brink of Financial Disaster
December 1, 2008 by
Greg Erlandson is the president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor. They did it again. They distracted us with all their talk of illegal immigrants stealing our jobs and draining our resources. They told us how we had to put up barriers, distrust anyone who wasn’t American. They made us suspicious of others, just the… continue reading
Bishop Tobin Calls for Conscientious Objection for Immigration Agents
December 1, 2008 by
(PROVIDENCE, R.I.)-The Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, Bishop of Providence and 15 pastors who serve the state’s diverse immigrant community have urged Stephen Farquharson , Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), Boston Regional Office, to declare a moratorium on immigration raids in Rhode Island. The clergy also encouraged ICE to allow agents to excuse themselves from… continue reading
Archbishop Gomez: Cruel Vindictive Immigration Laws Undermine Rule of Law
December 1, 2008 by
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. On October 8, 2008 the Catholic News Agency reported that San Antonio Archbishop José H. Gomez, the senior Hispanic member of the United States’ Catholic hierarchy, called for a moratorium on deportations, federal work site raids, and new anti-immigration legislation. Addressing a rally at the Missouri State Capitol, Archbishop Gomez said he… continue reading
NAFTA Key to Immigration Problems in the United States
June 1, 2008 by
Dawn McCarty teaches at the University of Houston-Downtown. “Illegal” immigration has become a hot-button political topic, but one aspect of the issue is rarely discussed: what happens to the families left behind in Mexico when the husband/father (and increasingly, the mother) immigrates to the United States? To find out, I traveled to 15 different communities… continue reading
The Most Dangerous Journey in the World
June 1, 2008 by
The man’s voice on the phone asked for help. He was very tired, having walked the 90 miles from Livingston, Texas, to Houston. When he was arrested he did not have his permanent residency card with him. He had been jailed for three months for an “immigration violation” and when released was put out on… continue reading
Many Profit from Immigrants’ Misery: Imprisoning Immigrants in Private Prisons and County Jails
June 1, 2008 by
From National Geographic to The New Yorker , more and more publications are featuring stories about immigrants coming to the United States, putting a human face on a group of people which are being demonized and dehumanized by our government’s current policies. The New Yorker article (Margaret Talbot, “The Lost Children: What Do Tougher Detention Policies Mean… continue reading
