Tensions are boiling over in Ohio as immigration authorities continue to detain Imam Ayman Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain whose asylum status was revoked last month. More than a dozen demonstrators have been arrested at vigils organized since…
Letter to the Editor: You can’t have it both ways on women’s rights
Dear Editor, I read Jeff Brumley’s article on the Trump administration’s decision to cease consideration of gender-based violence in immigration and was struck by the administration’s blatant inconsistency. In January, President Trump signed Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring…
Trump administration won’t consider violence against women in immigration
The Justice Department has determined women no longer may cite gender-based violence as grounds for seeking asylum in the U.S. The agency’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled July 18 “that a particular social group defined by the alien’s sex or…
Supreme Court clears way for third-country deportations
The Trump administration may deport undocumented immigrants to countries other than their own, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 23. The unsigned order reverses a lower court ruling granting unauthorized noncitizens an opportunity to demonstrate the risk of persecution, torture…
Even Trump supporters are weary with his ‘disappearing’ immigrants
Americans who originally backed President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign are having a change of heart due to protests, military involvement and the targeting of immigrants without criminal histories, migrant advocates and new polling suggest. “It seems the deportation operations…
Here’s what’s really happening in Los Angeles
How many of you have seen the images of burning cars and Mexican flags being flown over destruction and carnage? Or maybe your algorithm serves you up endless videos of police trampling, striking or shooting helpless protestors. These days it…
Supreme Court clears way for Trump to deport legal immigrants
A pair of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings have cleared the way for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the nation legally. The justices agreed May 30 to pause a lower court order preventing Department of Homeland…
At the border, an Episcopal priest finds stories to tell
When Cristina Rathbone decided to head to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, she believed God was calling her there. What happened there is told in her new book, The Asylum Seekers. Working with marginalized people was nothing new to her….
You can’t love Jesus and hate immigrants
In the years leading up to World War II and the Holocaust, large numbers of German Christians condemned people who differed from them politically, theologically, nationally or ethnically. In the midst of that dangerous context, one offbeat newspaper dared to…
Chicago association declares itself a ‘sanctuary region’
As the Trump administration seeks to prosecute “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration police, a Baptist association has declared itself a “sanctuary region.” The action was taken May 3 by the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago…
House Judiciary Committee wants to impose fees on immigrant children
A congressional committee is contemplating steps to end legal assistance and trafficking protections for unaccompanied immigrant children and enacting oppressive regulations such as charging families $8,500 for the release of a youth from U.S. custody, child advocates warned during an…
Passover demands we reject cruelty toward strangers in our land
As Jews gather for the start of Passover and share the story of our exodus, we do more than retell our journey from persecution to freedom. The traditional text of the Haggadah read during the seder demands we see ourselves…