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-4 posts tagged "US-Mexico border"
Claire Reid | Monday, March 28, 2022
The South Bend Civic Theatre hosted a Common Good Immigration event Thursday night featuring local immigration activists and speakers from Vote Common Good — an organization dedicated to encouraging and mobilizing Catholic and evangelical voters to support policies and candidates that they believe benefit the less fortunate. The organization also trains Democratic candidates to connect
Raymond Ramirez | Tuesday, April 10, 2018
In response to a largely illusory threat of an unprecedented wave of immigrants assaulting the U.S. border with Mexico, President Trump has called for a surge in federal military forces to assist Homeland Security. More than a thousand Central Americans recently trudged through southern Mexico as part of an annual Holy Week event, bolstered by
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, February 21, 2018
In the past few decades, our country has faced the revival of a social phenomenon with Draconian precedence: nativism. President Donald Trump and his $ 70 billion wall and “Muslim ban” are only symptoms of a disease that has plagued America for centuries. From the Know-Nothing Party in 1855 to the Tea Party offshoot of
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, September 1, 2016
I illegally entered the United States on July 23, 2003 when I was eight years old. I remember it clearly, it was a blistering hot summer day on the U.S.–Mexico border. I remember the rushed atmosphere and the hushed conversations all through the day. My mom told me we were going on a vacation, and my