Articles
7/18/19, New York Times: Trump’s Immigration Measures, Far From New, Follow Europe’s Example
7/18/19, Immigration Impact: ICE Quietly Expands Immigration Detention in the Deep South
7/17/19, NPR: U.S. Asylum Agents: ‘Very Little Time’ To Prepare Before New Immigration Rule
7/16/19, The Hill: Immigration advocacy groups sue Trump administration over asylum restrictions
7/16/19, Politico: How Trump Broke the Immigration Courts
7/16/19, New York Times: What Happens After an ICE Raid? Explaining the Deportation Process
7/16/19, WAMU: ‘I Am Undocumented And Unafraid’: Immigrants And Jewish Allies Take Protests To ICE
7/16/19, New York Times Magazine: Inside Trump’s Border Wars
7/15/19, Episcopal News Service: Presiding Bishop issues video message on immigration: ‘Who is my neighbor?’
7/15/19, New York Times: Pence’s Border Trip Illustrates Conflicting Messages About Detained Migrants
7/15/19, Immigration Impact: ICE Raids: What to Expect This Week
7/14/19, Fox 5 San Diego: Church calls on ICE to release asylum-seeking father with family in San Diego
7/14/19, LAist: Lincoln Heights Churchgoers Say Threat Of ICE Raids Is Scaring People Away
7/13/19, WAMU: 1A Across America: Migrant Aid Divides Congregations (47 minute podcast)
“As part of our project Across America, we tagged along with volunteers from an Episcopal church in Houston as they headed to McAllen, Texas, a few miles from the border.” Featuring Partners in Welcome member Alyssa Stebbing.
7/13/19, Abilene Reporter-News: Texas Episcopal bishops issue joint statement about detention centers
7/12/19, The Day: New London church places Holy Family in cages to protest border conditions
7/12/19, New York Times: Migrants in Mexico Face Kidnappings and Violence While Awaiting Immigration Hearings in U.S.
Opinion
7/17/19, New York Times: The Hard Immigration Questions
7/14/19, New Caanan Advertiser: Want to provide sanctuary to an undocumented person? This is what it takes
7/12/19, New York Times: ICE Is Dangerously Inaccurate
Publications
7/18/19, Migration Policy Institute: MPI and Colegio de México Experts Outline Solutions for the U.S. and Mexico to Resolve the Border Migration Crisis
With apprehensions of Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans at the U.S.-Mexico border more than tripling over the past year and deportations from Mexico rising more than 50 percent from May to June, the U.S. and Mexican governments have been searching for ways to alleviate the migration crisis and stem irregular flows from Central America.
The policy solutions have been enforcement-minded and focused on the immediate term, and in the U.S. case on narrowing access to asylum. However, a new commentary from top analysts at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and El Colegio de México (COLMEX) makes clear that for lasting success, the two countries will have to consider long-term, cooperative efforts.
Kettering Institute: Beyond the Clash: How a Deliberative Public Talks about Immigration
This report on the 2018 National Issues Forums on immigration offers a powerful demonstration that typical Americans with differing views can exchange ideas on immigration and that, as they listen to one another, their views become more nuanced and pragmatic. Most important, it shows that people with different starting points can and will find areas of common ground for action on which they would be willing to come together. And time after time, in all kinds of settings, participants leave the forums wishing that their elected officials, too, could begin looking for areas of agreement and hammering out a more lasting solution. For policymakers, these deliberative forums provide a different kind of knowledge that can uniquely outline the bounds of political permission within which they have room to lead.