Commentary: The terrifying images of Border Patrol's brute force deployed against families is the most visible manifestation of a violence that occurs every day all along the border under a policy known as Title 42.
The death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl "represents an egregious disregard for the safety and care of persons in the custody of U.S. officials," the National Council of Churches said.
After a tense standoff with officials at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday (Dec. 10), at least 30 American clergy were taken into custody over the objections of demonstrators, who had come to protest the treatment of Central American asylum-seekers.
NCR Today: It is two days before Thanksgiving and I am just home from the School of the Americas Watch demonstration at Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico.
San Ysidro, Calif. - It began with a simple request. Jesuit ordinand Elías Puentes wondered if the ordaining bishop could be someone who could speak to the immigrant experience.
None of the stories were pretty. The three panelists at a Tucson workshop on "Perspectives on Border Life" told stories from three perspectives during a workshop held June 1, the last day of CLINIC's annual meeting.
NCR Today: The protests at the border are more complex than they were at Fort Benning. But they are still a call to change public policy and to take courage together.
Immigrant rights groups see "public policy going in the wrong direction," with country bans, historic-low refugee numbers, treatment of migrants at the border, and the threat to DACA.
