SANCTUARY FOR IMMIGRANTS More and more places of worship are saying NO to ICE raids and offering protection to refugees and undocumented residents. Historically, “sanctuary” is an ancient practice rooted in the struggle against injustice. Today a congregation that...
Yvonne Lapp Cryns, J.D. 2006 Report on the NIU Delegation to Mexico (Piedras Negras and Ciudad Acuña, Oct.7-9, 2005). Have you ever given any thought to who sews the pants and shirts you wear? Who makes your Nike shoes? Who put the electrical...
In 2018 the U.S. Government introduced the Zero Tolerance Policy and told border patrol officials to separate children and even babies from legal asylum seeker parents. RAICES has produced a documentary, The Fight, in which they follow the civil rights lawyers who...
I wanted to point out the contradiction. This country purports itself to be a safe haven for LGBTQ people, but it routinely tortures and harasses trans and gender nonconforming migrants in detention. I had known about the case of someone named Roxsana Hernandez, a...
Comments of WOB Board member, Donna J. Blevins, J.D., MPP I really don’t get the extreme, overwhelmingly negative reaction by so many in the white community to the simple phrase “Black Lives Matter.” When I see it, I think “yes, they do!” And I am...
COMMENTARY: The border, migrant laborers, the maquiladoras and now ICE jails and deportation. Why hasn’t the discourse on immigration reform ever taken into account how NAFTA produced waves of migration to the U.S.? Or how CAFTA created maquiladora jobs but did...
