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The Unborn Children of Immigrants Face Persecution Because of Race, Not Immigration Status
by Lauren Boyer — It recently hit me how different my experience is from my Spanish-speaking neighbors. In high school, I had a friend...
Aug 205 min read
Whose America? Which Identity? — 'America First' vs. Human Solidarity
by Dr. William Tullius — In the follow-up to his now-classic After Virtue , the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre posed a fundamental set of...
Mar 1210 min read
People in Need of a Safe Haven: The Struggle to Help Afghan Refugees
by John Whitehead — The Afghan people are suffering today from both the Taliban’s repressive rule and international economic penalties...
Oct 31, 20233 min read
Titan vs. Trawler: Sympathy and Aid are For Sale
by Samuel B. Parker — On June 14th, a small fishing trawler — reportedly bound for Italy from North Africa, and packed with over 700...
Jun 23, 20233 min read
Texas Migrant Deaths Prove that Dysfunctional U.S. Immigration Policy has Lethal Consequences
by Samuel B. Parker — On June 28th, law enforcement agents and emergency responders in Texas announced that they had recovered the bodies...
Jul 11, 20223 min read
A World’s Crisis: On Warming, Migration, and the Potential Impacts of Climate Change
by Sean Wild — The world is at a pivotal moment when it comes to climate change and the state of the planet. According to current warming...
May 29, 20226 min read
The Biden Administration: A Year in Review
by Samuel B. Parker — It has been just over a year since Joe Biden took office as President of the United States, and that year has been...
Mar 9, 20226 min read
U.S. Foreign Policy, Afghanistan, and the Historical Significance of Accepting Refugees
by Rana Irby — Recent years have seen war, violence, conflict, and persecution being major contributors to people leaving their homes as...
Sep 1, 20213 min read
"Who Built the Cages?": Immigration Under Biden
by Mikhayla Stover — Her name was Mariee Juárez. Mariee and her mother Yazmin were forced to flee Guatemala in 2018. At the time, Mariee...
Jan 19, 20213 min read
Reproductive Injustice: Claims of Coerced Sterilization Under ICE Watch
by Aimee Murphy — The U.S. has a long and dark history of violating the human rights and dignity of incarcerated people, and this week...
Sep 17, 20205 min read
Teen's Death in Border Patrol Custody Highlights Lack of Concern for Human Life
by Stephanie Hauer — Carlos Hernandez Vasquez was only 16 years old when he arrived at the US border in May 2019. Because his medical...
Dec 20, 20193 min read
Cruelty and Dehumanization at the Border
by Maria Oswalt — “We aren’t criminals! We’re hard workers!” According to BBC, this chant erupted among the crowd as the long-awaited...
Nov 26, 20183 min read
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