by Arthur Brown | Aug 3, 2017 | Opinion
Fear, it seems to me, has always been a dominant force – perhaps one of the most powerful motivating factors in many of our attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Even for those of us professing faith in Christ – whose love we are told “drives out...
by Suzie Lahoud | Jul 28, 2017 | Opinion
The week that the controversial U.S. travel and immigration ban was first issued, I sat in my living room in Lebanon with a Syrian woman whose water had broken in her seventh month of pregnancy. Both she and the baby were now at risk. Yet, she came, not for medical...
by Simon Jones | Jun 5, 2017 | Opinion
A heavily armed CRS, or Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (the French National Police), officer brought his baton down on my hand as he prevented me from carrying a box of food to a group of refugees. This unnecessary aggression reinforced a total prohibition on...
by Simon Jones | Jun 2, 2017 | Opinion
I visited again in mid-May the site of the so-called “Jungle” in Calais, France, where refugees had created a makeshift camp. I caught up with friends in the warehouse, met new people in the Catholic worker house and went shopping with my favorite monk....
by Jesus Romero | May 18, 2017 | Opinion
Our office at the Immigration Service and Aid Center (better known as the ISAAC Project) was swamped by immigrants barely a week into the new U.S. presidency. These were mostly people from Africa – green card holders who until now did not think they would ever...
