The Trump administration recently proposed 15,000 person reduction to the refugee admittance cap for the 2019 fiscal year. Christian leaders across the country have condemned this proposal including Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore.
The Trump administration recently proposed 15,000 person reduction to the refugee admittance cap for the 2019 fiscal year. Christian leaders across the country have condemned this proposal including Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore.
The Trump administration is proposing a record-breaking reduction to the refugee admittance cap for the 2019 fiscal year.
With a decision looming on how many refugees to admit into the country, and rumors swirling that the number could drop dramatically from this year’s historic low, people of faith are coming together to ask the Trump administration to instead allow tens of thousands more to enter the United States.
Two judges in Taos County, New Mexico dismissed child neglect charges against five people who lived in a remote compound in northern New Mexico.
A 24-year-old undocumented immigrant has been charged with first-degree murder in the case.
To the World Relief volunteers in a mobile welcome center parked outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., it was clear that the woman released from the center moments before had been separated from her children while seeking asylum at the United States border with Mexico.
United Methodist Church officials in Alabama have dismissed a complaint signed by more than 600 church members in July that chided Attorney General Jeff Sessions for implementing the family separation policy along the border and attempting to justify it with Scripture.
<p>Hot, dusty episodes of forensic dramas had shown me desperate families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border along with gang members and drug cartels. But the factors that influence international migration worldwide are many, and the reasons undocumented immigrants are present in the States can be as unique as the individuals themselves. </p> <p> <span style="font-size:10px;">Photo Courtesy: Max Ostrozhinskiy/Unsplash</span></p>
An Episcopal church in Indianapolis has placed statues of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus in an outside cage to protest President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy of arresting people at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In the past few weeks at least two faith-based agencies have sheltered or are currently caring for as many as 171 immigrant children who were separated from their families as a result of the widely condemned policy.
