immigration

President Joe Biden responds to the DACA decision

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Yesterday a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, or DACA, is illegal. DACA is Barack Obama’s 2012 program that protects the so-called “Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as...

Lou Barletta will run for governor of Pennsylvania

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Here is Max Greenwood at The Hill: Former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), who challenged Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) for his seat in 2018, is running for Pennsylvania governor. Barletta becomes the most prominent Republican yet to jump into the race to succeed Gov. Tom Wolf,...

The Biden backtrack on refugees explained

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Last week the Biden Administration announced that it would not raise the number of refugees permitted to resettle in the United States. In the process, he broke a promise he made to faith-based groups. During the 2020 presidential campaign Biden...

The Author’s Corner with Crawford Gribben

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Crawford Gribben is Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast. This interview is based on his new book, Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write...

Is there really a “surge” at the border

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According to the researchers at Washington Post‘s “Monkey Cage” column, the large number of immigrants at the southern border can be explained by a “usual seasonal bump” and people who “waited during the pandemic.” Here is a taste: Last week,...

Do Democrats have an immigration policy?

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It doesn’t look like it. Here is a taste of David Leonhardt’s piece at The New York Times: . . . In recent years, however, a growing number of immigration advocates and progressive Democrats have become dissatisfied with this combination....

The latest from the border

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Here is the Associated Press: A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive, with the head of Homeland Security acknowledging the depth of the problem but insisting it’s under control and saying he...

What is happening at the southern border?

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As Fareed Zakaria writes, “the asylum system is out of control.” Here is a taste of his Washington Post piece, “Biden’s generous immigration policies could turn out to backfire.“ In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans have tried to enter...

Hey Joe, let’s do something about these kids on the border

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An overwhelming number of unaccompanied children are showing-up on the Mexican border. Here is The New York Times: The number of unaccompanied migrant children detained along the southern border has tripled in the last two weeks to more than 3,250,...

Out of the Zoo: The Doughnut Debate

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Annie Thorn is senior history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as a...

The rush to build Trump’s border wall

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Here is National Public Radio: In the Coronado National Memorial — where conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entered what is now Arizona — contractors are pulverizing the wilderness in a rush to put up as many miles of border wall...

Tonight’s debate

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Some thoughts on the final debate of the 2020 presidential campaign. On the format: The mute button definitely worked. Kristen Welker did a solid job as moderator. Trump was under control. He started-out very mellow: Symbolic gestures are important, especially...