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It was 2020, the U.S. border was closed, asylum was suspended. The bishop from El Paso, Texas, was visiting and provided the men the only thing he could: a prayer. Still, he worried.
Activists march to the White House to rally against family detention and President Joe Biden's proposed asylum ban on March 16, 2023, in Washington.
The asylum rule was not the only new policy targeted by the faith-based refugee agencies. They don’t like the introduction of a smartphone app to process asylum claims at the U.S. border.
The sociologist analyzed the experience of 51 LGBTIQ+ religious people seeking asylum in the U.K. to challenge the assumption that religion and queerness are incompatible, and the results were ...
NOGALES, Sonora — Asylum-seekers stranded in Mexico and faith leaders from southern Arizona held a binational rally to protest the U.S. government’s policies blocking all asylum processing at ...
We desperately need help and want to invite other faith communities into this effort. Austin is home to about 12,000 refugees and asylum seekers, who are fleeing persecution, torture and death in ...
Go and Do Likewise, an Austin-area initiative of local Episcopal churches, helps immigrant families seeking asylum find stability through locating and furnishing short-term housing in the area.
ALBANY — Capital District Border Watch presents Celebrate Asylum: A Fundraising Dinner to Support Local Asylum Seekers, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19 at First Lutheran Church, 181 Western ...
The asylum rule was not the only new policy targeted by the faith-based refugee agencies. They don’t like the introduction of a smartphone app to process asylum claims at the U.S. border.
Casa Marianella, an emergency homeless shelter that has serves recently-arrived men and women immigrants, asylum seekers and asylees, has been in East Austin since 1986. Its residents are featured ...
The Biden administration’s new asylum rule may be a response to pressures from the Republican Party to keep the surges of migrants at the border under control. The asylum rule was not the only new ...