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 […]
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Lou Barletta will run for governor of Pennsylvania
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
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 […]
Biden responds to evangelical World Relief’s call to raise the refugee ceiling
Evangelicals are doing good work. Here is a taste of Jack Jenkins’s reporting at Religion News Service: President Joe Biden’s administration has reversed a decision to keep in place a historically low cap on refugee admissions left by Donald Trump, […]
The Author’s Corner with Crawford Gribben
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 […]
Kamala Harris meets with faith leaders, including Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals
Kim was one of the few faith leaders who was actually in the room. Harris said that she wanted to discuss COVID-19 vaccines, immigration, voting rights, and hate crimes. Watch: The staff removed the cameras after Harris’s opening remarks.
Is there really a “surge” at the border
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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 […]
Canada will bring 1.2 million immigrants into the country over the next three years.
Just sayin’. 🙂 Here is Aljazeera: Canada plans to bring in more than 1.2 million new immigrants over the next three years, the federal immigration minister said on Friday, as the country tries to fill gaps in its labour market […]
How did the court evangelicals respond to last night’s debate?
They loved it, of course. Let’s begin, one more time, with American religious historian Grant Wacker from his biography of Billy Graham: The crucial point is that Graham continued to defend Nixon long after most Americans smelled a rat. When […]
Tonight’s debate
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 […]
The “family values” administration can’t find the parents of 545 children
Many conservative evangelicals champion family values, but I am guessing their leaders will say nothing about this. If the court evangelicals cared about families they should be crying from the rooftops right now. They won’t because they are held captive […]
As November approaches, Trump releases his “greatest” hits album
The coronavirus is spiking again. The country is in the midst of what might be an unprecedented conversation about race. And polls show that Donald Trump is trailing Joe Biden by a considerable margin. Trump is desperate. If he loses […]
Evangelicals Urge Trump to Release People From Immigration Detention Facilities
Here is the Associated Press: NEW YORK – Nine leaders at evangelical Christian organizations are urging the Trump administration to release people from immigration detention facilities “who do not pose a threat to public safety” during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly […]
Historians on “Foreign Viruses”
In Thursday night’s address to the nation, Donald Trump said the coronavirus was a “foreign virus.” CNN asked several historians to reflect historically on this claim. Here is a taste of Catherine Choicet’s piece: For immigration historians and other […]