Articles
12/27/20, NPR: Immigrant Detainees Held by ICE Are Going On Hunger Strikes
12/27/20, San Diego Union-Tribune: The U.S. asylum system is broken. How could it be reimagined?
12/26/20, KRGV (TX): Migrants spend Christmas in Matamoros refugee camp
12/26/20, Nevada Independent: For organizers serving immigrant community, pandemic means a pivot back to the basics
12/25/20, Chicago Sun-Times: Resettlement, reunification and romance: Refugees make a new life in Chicago despite the pandemic
12/25/20, New York Times: Stateless, She Became the Face of a Largely Invisible Plight
12/23/20, Texas Tribune & ProPublica: The Trump administration awarded border wall contracts to build on land it doesn’t own in Texas
12/23/20, Washington Post: Biden says he’ll reverse Trump immigration policies but wants ‘guardrails’ first
12/22/20, CNN: Biden team prepares to revamp the US refugee admissions program
12/22/20, Dallas Morning News: Fight for stimulus checks for couples of mixed immigration status ends with partial victory
12/22/20, Guernica: Laila Lalami: “We have to think about citizenship as a relationship.”
12/22/20, HuffPost: Immigrant Women File Lawsuit Against ICE And Georgia Doctor Alleging Medical Abuse
12/22/20, New Humanitarian: 2020 in review: Migration and forced displacement
12/22/20, New York Times: Biden Says He Cannot Quickly Undo Trump Border Policies
12/21/20, Chicago Reader: For undocumented immigrants, the work doesn’t stop at the election
12/21/20, Los Angeles Times: Deaths along Arizona border on track for record after state’s hottest summer
12/21/20, Reuters: Exclusive: Biden team weighs deportation relief for more than 1 million Hondurans, Guatemalans
12/20/20, Axios: Biden and Mexico’s López Obrador discuss “new approach” to migration issues
12/20/20, New York Times: Immigrant Neighborhoods Shifted Red as the Country Chose Blue
12/18/20, Religion News Service: Biden DHS nominee has ‘refreshing’ meeting with faith groups about immigration, refugees
Opinion
12/24/20, Guardian: If the measure of a city is how it treats its ‘invisibles’, London should be ashamed
12/23/20, Guardian: This is my eighth Christmas locked up in immigration detention. Next year I hope to celebrate as a free man
12/23/20, Sacramento Bee: Immigrants play vital roles in the American economy and deserve pathway to citizenship
12/21/20, Teen Vogue: The Citizenship Exam Puts an Unfair Burden on Low-Income Immigrants
12/20/20, New York Times: How Fake News Is Hatching in Immigrant Communities
Policy Resources
MPI commentary: Anticipated “Chilling Effects” of the Public-Charge Rule Are Real: Census Data Reflect Steep Decline in Benefits Use by Immigrant Families
Opportunities
Episcopal Church: From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference
From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference invites Episcopalians and our neighbors to engage in one-to-one listening and sharing across the many differences that separate us. Echoing the Latin phrase “e pluribus unum” – from many, one – and following in the footsteps of Jesus, we trust the spiritual practice of conversation across difference can knit us all into a diverse, more perfect union. It all starts with the four simple questions above. Sign up for updates on From Many, One, launching in January 2021. Watch the videos. Invite a partner. Have the conversation. Pray. Join in deeper conversation, learning and action. Help to form God’s beloved community.