Immigration

Stories on U.S. immigration and policies. Also international developments on immigration.

World Relief Akron

World Relief Akron is closing.

[T]he U.S. is currently only projected to welcome 24,369 in FY 2019, indicating a drop of 71.3% overall.

World Relief Warns Against Extremely Low FY 2019 Midyear Refugee Resettlement Numbers (Infographic)

Refugee resettlement needed in US.

World Relief President Scott Arbeiter commented...

World Relief Responds to Administration’s Proposed Budget Cuts to Humanitarian Assistance Programs

World Relief Responds to Administration’s Proposed Budget Cuts to Humanitarian Assistance Programs

Editor's Links of Interest

One-on-One with Rich Nathan on Immigration and Diversity at Columbus Vineyard – CT

“If you can bring people together in safe spaces where they get to know each other as people and not as issues, you can see a lot of change.” Source:Read More

Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Mexico joined social justice groups

Catholic bishops, advocates meet to discuss response to Trump border policies

Catholic bishops at US/Mexico border.

by: Jack Jenkins, Feb 28, 2019 (RNS) — A group Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Mexico joined social justice groups for what organizers described as an “emergency” summit this Read More

World Relief urges the President to pursue broad-based immigration reform in partnership with Congress.

World Relief Responds to President Trump’s Declaration of a National Emergency at the Border

World Relief rresponds to President Trrump's National Emergency.

Feb. 15, 2019 Baltimore, Md. – Today, President Trump declared the situation at the border a national emergency, invoking presidential emergency powers to increase border security. While appreciative of his Read More

But other moments in the speech offered a reminder of the partisan divide that has riven Washington in recent years...

Trump’s State of the Union garners mixed reactions among faith groups

by: Jack Jenkins, Feb 6, 2019 WASHINGTON (RNS) – Religious leaders and people of faith offered mixed reactions to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening (Feb. 5),Read More

Over the past two years, the nation's refugee resettlement system has been slowly dismantled.

Two years after Trump’s travel ban, faith-based refugee groups struggle

Trump travel ban protesters

by: Emily McFarlan Miller, Feb 4, 2019 (RNS) – Every morning when Khadra Abdo wakes up, her mind turns to her children. “My first thought is that I hope they Read More

Prayer and Petition

Evangelical Immigration Table: Praying for a Resolution to the Shutdown… petition opportunity

By EITAdmin January 24, 2019 Dear friends, We’ve recently entered the second month of a partial government shutdown, with disagreements over immigration policy at the center of the stalemate. Leaders of Read More

Editor's Links of Interest

On immigration, some Evangelicals mistake ‘America for the Kingdom of God’: former-Muslim pastor – Christian Post

A former Muslim turned Texas pastor who came to the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution told those gathered at the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2019 Evangelicals for Life conference Thursday that Read More