Annunciation House Newsletter

From the Interfaith Worker Justice website, www.iwj.org

The New Sanctuary Movement is a coalition of interfaith religious leaders and participating congregations, called by our faith to respond actively and publicly to the suffering of our immigrant brothers and sisters residing in the United States.

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By David Chiles

There are few things we U.S. citizens value more than options. Look at our malls or grocery stores, and you’ll find a multitude of options from which to choose what we want. And how much we want. We can have it all.
How can this be a bad thing? After all, we work hard [...]

By Amy Joyce
 
Recently a good friend sent me a postcard that listed the “ingredients” for building a global community. “Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown” was one of the ingredients listed. In researching the reality of migrant agricultural workers in the United States, I have come to understand the importance of that statement; [...]

by Ruben Garcia

Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the country and world gather in Ft. Benning, Georgia, to call for the closure of the School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHINSEC). The SOA gained its notoriety in the 1980s, serving as a training ground for armies and paramilitaries of Central and [...]

By Charles Vernon
 

Undocumented immigration presents a complex and nuanced political issue in the United States. One of the most contentious aspects of the debate related to this issue is how undocumented immigrants affect the U.S. economy. Some of the prevailing myths used to fuel anti-immigrant sentiments in the United States are myths about the economic [...]

Algunos de estos “iniciadores principales” incluyen: obtener (por el Departamento de Seguridad de la Patria) “control operativo” de la frontera; emplear, entrenar y mandar 20,000 agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza; construír 370 millas de muralla en la frontera y 300 millas de barreras para vehículos; edificar o ver que se construya suficientes locales para detener mas de 31,500 inmigrantes en un solo día; e implementar el Sistema Electrónico para la Verificación de Empleo (una base de datos que los empleadores usarían para ver si el empleado puede trabajar legalmente en los EE.

… Otras provisiones para la ejecución de las provisiones en la ley también incrementaron las multas y los castigos contra los que emplean sabiendo que los inmigrantes son indocumentados; imponiendo castigos criminales por entrar al país ilegalmente y un incremento de castigos criminales para la mayoría de los casos de aquellos que vuelven a entrar ilegalmente; ampliar las provisiones criminales tocante al fraude de pasaportes y documentos; impedir la entrada y deportar a inmigrantes asociados (una definición amplia) con “pandillas”; y ofrecer reembolsos a departamentos de policías locales que reciben entrenamiento sobre la ley de inmigración y que detienen a inmigrantes indocumentados.

By Amy Joyce
In houses of God there are often stained glass windows depicting saints and martyrs and symbols of their holiness and sometimes of their death. In my dreams, the house at 1003 E. San Antonio has windows of stained glass—on them are images of guests, past and present. The scenes they depict are colorful, [...]

by Megan Hope
For the last two years, immigration has been the talk of the nation—not just for the likes of Annunciation House supporters, but for everyone. Even folks hitherto quite unaware of the immigrants in their midst leapt to attention, talked about the issue, blogged about it, marched, turned up their radios, and picked up [...]

By Katie Sharar
 
In the 1980s, thousands of Central Americans arrived in the United States to seek refuge from repressive and violent governments. Virtually all were denied asylum, in spite of the fact that they were fleeing persecution, life-threatening repression, and extensive human rights abuses. In large part, this is because granting asylum is a [...]