In March of 2025, the Trump Administration was widely criticized for sending more than two hundred Venezuelans to CECOT, a notoriously brutal mega-prison in El Salvador. Yet, over…
Read more How Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He WantsWhen I was working with refugees in Lebanon and Turkey and the Iraqi crisis, Rwanda, other places—you know, when everything’s taken away from you, God is all you…
Read more A Theology of ImmigrationA proposed ICE facility just north of Richmond, Virginia, drew hundreds of people last week to a tense public hearing of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors. A…
Read more Trump’s $45 billion expansion of immigrant detention sites faces pushback from communities – WTOP NewsThe first documented arrival of Haitian refugees in South Florida dates to 1972, when a wooden sailboat, the Saint Sauveur, ran aground off of Pompano Beach, carrying sixty‑five…
Read more Miami’s Haitian Community Braces for DeportationsOn Saturday, agents with U.S. Border Patrol killed a man named Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the second person who has been shot dead by federal personnel in Minneapolis since…
Read more Do Federal Officials Really Have “Absolute Immunity”?Twenty years ago this week, the Minnesota History Center, in Minneapolis’s twin city, St. Paul, launched an interactive exhibition called “Open House: If These Walls Could Talk.” It…
Read more Revisiting Minnesota’s “Open House” Exhibition in the Age of ICEFor many immigrants, the idea of launching a business is part of the dream of independence and success. After all, the entrepreneurial drive runs deep—in a recent TD survey,…
Read more Want to start a business? Work on your personal finances first – MoneySenseOn March 16, 1965, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Viola Liuzzo got into a late-model Oldsmobile and drove eight hundred miles from her home in Detroit, Michigan, to Selma,…
Read more From Selma to MinneapolisGina Vega wipes tears from her eyes and she pleads for the return of her beloved son detained by ICE. Photo by Dean Moses Gina Vega sat weeping…
Read more Queens mother weeps for return of her teenage son taken by ICE – who threatened to deport her, too – amNewYorkProtesters gather outside Orlando City Hall after ICE fatally shoots Minneapolis woman AND THERE HAVE BEEN PROTESTS ERUPTING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AFTER THIS. THIS IS A LOOK AT…
Read more Protesters gather outside Orlando City Hall after ICE fatally shoots Minneapolis womanFor a singer-songwriter who came to the United States from Venezuela seven years ago, the news that the U.S. had removed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from power was…
Read more Venezuelan singer-songwriter looks to the future for the US and his former homeland – WTOP NewsA man wipes his tears as members of the Venezuelan exile community gather in prayer during Sunday Mass led by Reverend Israel Mago, one day after the United…
Read more What does Maduro’s capture mean for Venezuelans in the U.S.? We answer your questionsBy JOSH FUNK New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally…
Read more New York is the 8th state found to have improperly issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrantsBy JOSH FUNK New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally…
Read more New York is the 8th state found to have improperly issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants(CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has identified the suspect involved in the Wednesday shooting of two National Guard members, who remain in critical condition. The suspect is…
Read more Suspect identified as 2 National Guard members remain in critical condition after targeted shooting near White House(CNN) — A coalition of 21 attorneys general have sued to block new guidance from the US Department of Agriculture that declares some immigrants, including refugees and those granted…
Read more Democratic attorneys general sue to block USDA guidance that makes some immigrants ineligible for SNAP benefitsThe U.S. Department of Transportation said this week it would withhold $75 million in federal funding from Pennsylvania if the state does not meet demands to address how…
Read more Trump administration threatens Pa. over driver’s licenses ‘illegally’ issued to immigrant truckersOn Tuesday, Nov. 18, advocates, families, and community leaders gathered outside the Phillip Burton Federal Courthouse as a federal judge considered the legality of the Trump administration’s termination…
Read more Federal Judge Holds Pivotal Hearing on Termination of TPS for 60,000 Immigrants from Honduras, Nepal, and NicaraguaLOWELL — When Ihsanullah Garay was delivering food on Sept. 14, he found himself struggling to find the Starbucks he was being sent to pick up from in…
Read more Afghan man living in Lowell speaks about ICE detentionThe Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting…
Read more HHS orders state Medicaid find immigrants in US illegally