Communities of faith across the U.S. and the world keep welcoming with compassion and dignity. In times of indifference, racism and hate, they offer an example of radical solidarity toward joint liberation for all. My colleague Aimée writes about it in our #FronteraDispatch .
It’s been a busy week at the U.S.-Mexico border, with plenty of policy changes, some deplorable events, and also hope and resistance. Check all about it in our latest #FronteraDispatch .
As we hear more news of another rule undermining due process and asylum at the border, read our #FronteraDispatch about the 'dangers' of 'legal' migration pathways. CBP One and the narrowing access to asylum are not solutions but problems that strand people and put them at risk.
From today's #FronteraDispatch : What if instead of shutdown politics and deterrence strategies, we worked toward reinforcing our asylum system? What if we looked at our immigration policies from the lenses of the borderlands? Because life at the border just cannot be shut down.
Families belong together, without excuses. If we need an example of how it can be done, look at communities in El Paso and elsewhere at the border, stretching resources and stepping in to welcome families and other people with dignity. Check out our latest #FronteraDispatch .
The border is not the problem but the solution. We need laws that recognize that asylum and other migration pathways are not competing channels but complementary and even overlapping as the contours of forced and “economic” migration blur. We discuss it in our #FronteraDispatch .
“Our community isn’t backing down,” says dylan corbett in this week’s #FronteraDispatch regarding the recent attacks against Annunciation House.
What’s next? This: “The current moment demands (…) a robust faith voice in defense of compassion and our shared human dignity.”
2024 may become one of the most consequential years in immigration in the U.S., bringing to a final test whether the promise of comprehensive immigration reform is possible. The border won't be a passive scenario but an active player. Learn all about it in our #FronteraDispatch .
Indeed, maddening to see how the most basic human rights, including the right to live, have been turned into a privilege at the border. Check out our #FronteraDispatch and join GE Sanchez and us on June 4th for a vital conversation about rethinking protection in the borderlands.
We said it clear in this week’s The Hope Border Institute #FronteraDispatch : the same bad ideas and policies will lead to the same bad outcomes for migrants needing protection at the border and beyond. Time to embrace rationality and humanity. Check also important updates on Latin America.
In the U.S. (as in many other countries), we see how vulnerable people's lives, including migrant kids, are often traded for populistic 'wins.' As we urged in our #FronteraDispatch , there should be no room for such dehumanization and pain in our bills.
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Politicians across the aisle in the U.S. keep doubling on extremist measures against migrants. As we argue in this week's #FronteraDispatch , it's all about the politics of the spectacle. But spoiler: these measures won't work nor appease their 'public.'
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Mexican citizens will head to the polls to elect their next president this weekend, who will have great influence on the flows of migration that arrive to the U.S.-Mexico border. Read more in this week’s #FronteraDispatch
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Once again, we hear the narrative of “shutting the border down.” It is not only logistically impossible, but extremely disrespectful to those calling the border home. Read what we had to say about it in our #FronteraDispatch of this past October. us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=0fe4d3ae2cf…
Pope Francis cried out ‘Madness!’ when referring to the recent attacks against Annunciation in Texas. What does this madness mean in practice? And, how can we overcome it? Read all about it in this week’s #FronteraDispatch
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On the eve of International Workers Day, migrant workers in the U.S. keep facing exploitation and discrimination, human rights groups call Biden to end expansion of immigration detention, and more in this week’s #FronteraDispatch .
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HOPE is in D.C. lifting up the voice of the border, President Bukele steps down, and more in this week’s #FronteraDispatch
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Communities in the U.S.-Mexico border keep having to handle the damaging impacts of bad federal policies, federal judge disputes Texas’ invasion claim during SB 4 injunction hearing, and more in this week’s #FronteraDispatch .
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With SB 4 being litigated in the courts, similar bills are being introduced nationwide. Read about the potential consequences and more on this week’s #FronteraDispatch
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Wrapping up a year allows us to look back and reflect for the year ahead. We finish the year as we started it: pushing against damaging policies while advancing real solutions. Read our The Hope Border Institute year in review in our last 2023 #FronteraDispatch .
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