Immigrant Rights

Border of Death

December 13, 2008
Border of Death

By Abilio Pena, Inter-ecclesial Commission on Justice and Peace, Colombia / SICSAL November 2008 Since 1994, more than 5,000 people have died trying to cross the border that separates Mexico from the United States. During the 1990s, the migratory route changed from the border towns to the Arizona desert, as a result of the...
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Solidarity with Guatemalans Detained in Immigration Raid

October 20, 2008

Solidarity with Guatemalans Detained in Immigration Raid Potsville, Iowa, Summer 2008 By Amalia Anderson, Carlos Ariel, Axel Fuentes, Reginaldo Haslett Marroquin, and Ana Nijera Mendoza As Guatemalans (by birth and by family origin) living in the United States we strongly condemn the Postville, Iowa raid – the largest single-site enforcement operation of its kind...
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Reflections on a Death Foretold: Sanctuary Movement News

October 17, 2008

By Juan Carlos Ruiz Back in August of 2006, Elvira Arellano took sanctuary in her Church. Her decision was discerned and informed in prayer and motivated by her faith and was done as a last recourse to keep her family together. Motivated by this witness, the New Sanctuary Movement was launched the 9th of...
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I Have Heard the Cry of My People on the Border

October 17, 2008

By Ruben Garcia Annunciation House, El Paso, TX It was a little after ten in the evening when the door rang at Annunciation House. Two families-husbands, wives and children-were at the door. Frightened and distraught, they had fled their respective apartments. One of the other tenants living in the same apartment complex had become...
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