Posted in Immigration & the Border, U.S. Peace & Justice on January 17th, 2009 Comments Off
By Bill Quigley
Is this what our nation has come to? War against unarmed working mothers? Have we no shame?
Dozens of petite young mothers gathered this week in the parking lot outside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi. Each wore a long dress or pants to hide their electronic ankle bracelets. Lift up a [...]
Posted in Immigration & the Border, SICSAL in Action on December 14th, 2008 Comments Off
Colombia Human Rights Tour in November
Last month, SICSAL-USA / EPICA hosted a month-long tour throughout the United States of a Colombian human rights activist, Abilio Pena, who received two death threats over the summer. Abilio works with the Inter-ecclesial Commission for Human Rights accompanying a dozen different struggles of Afro-colombian and indigenous communities for territorial [...]
Posted in Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Immigrant Rights, Immigration & the Border, SICSAL in Action, U.S. Peace & Justice on December 13th, 2008 Comments Off
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 reinforcement of the border. [...]
Posted in Catholic Social Teaching, El Salvador, Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Immigrant Rights, Immigration & the Border, Meso America, Solidarity & Globalization, U.S. Peace & Justice on October 20th, 2008 Comments Off
CRISPAZ Interview with Dean Brackley, SJ
Reprinted from SALVANET, Winter 2007
Salvanet (SN): Dean, you recently returned from a speaking tour on Immigration in the States. Can you enlighten us on the depth and importance of this topic?
Dean Brackley (DB): The situation here in El Salvador is unbelievably bad. The majority is migrating out of desperation. They [...]
Posted in Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Guatemala, Immigrant Rights, Immigration & the Border, Meso America, U.S. Peace & Justice on October 20th, 2008 Comments Off
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 in the history of [...]