“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” ~ Lily Tomlin This week, join the chorus of voices urging an end to Title 42, an ineffective and discriminatory policy implemented by the Trump administration––and continuing under the Biden administration––that uses a misleading public health rationale to block and expel refugees and unaccompanied children. Take…
May 15, 2020 By Julia Ainsley, NBC WASHINGTON — Several immigrant rights organizations are outraged by a new choice U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is presenting to migrant parents: Separate from your child or stay together in detention indefinitely. Starting on Thursday, the groups claim, ICE began distributing a form in all three of its…
By Elaine Ayala In 2016, pastor John Garland’s Mennonite Church in Southtown became an emergency shelter for Central American migrants. They’d trekked, some by foot, to the U.S. border to seek asylum. It seems like so long ago now, when humanitarian protections for such travelers seemed a possibility. They’re rare today, even before the COVID-19…
SAN ANTONIO (May 15, 2020) – The Interfaith Welcome Coalition, a faith-based network dedicated to assisting asylum seekers, refugees and at-risk immigrants, today joined human rights and civil rights advocates demanding that federal immigration halt the renewed separation of children from their families in the midst of a global pandemic. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials…
Inspired by human stories of immigration and asylum, an extended-play soundtrack by bassist/composer Joël Dilley will benefit the Interfaith Welcome Coalition. https://interfaithwelcomecoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/20.4.16-S.-Texas-Jazz-Project–WITD.mp3 Listen to the story of Wall in the Desert on KRTU 91.7 FM In the universal language of music, Wall in the Desert captures the dramatic and dangerous journey of those uprooted and displaced by violence,…