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Posts Tagged: border
February 15, 2019
The President has just declared a national emergency to circumvent Congress and the U.S. Constitution, in order to proceed with plans to build a border wall. The only crisis at our southern border is the humanitarian crisis manufactured by this administration. The current administration has separated children from their families, undermined child and asylum protections, and fueled… Read more »
January 30, 2019
Urge Congress to Avert a Second Shutdown and Protect the Dignity of Migrants and Border Communities What’s at stake? After the longest shutdown in government history, Congress has until February 15, to figure out how to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Without a lasting agreement to keep the government funded, departments funded by the… Read more »
January 23, 2019
*UPDATE: The Senate failed to advance either of the proposals outlined below. On January, 24, the Shelby proposal that including the President’s $5.7 billion for a border wall failed in the Senate by a vote of 50-47. The Schumer proposal, the clean CR, failed by a vote of 52-44. Both bills needed 60 votes to… Read more »
January 10, 2019
As the partial government shutdown drags well into its third week, the human cost of the shutdown is coming into sharp focus. On Wednesday, Jan. 9, PC(USA) Office of Public Witness Director, the Reverend Jimmie Hawkins, said, “It is time for the Senate to take up the House spending bills and send them to President… Read more »
January 4, 2019
If you receive our paper mail, you should have received the Washington Report to Presbyterians, Winter 2018 edition, in your mailbox the week before Christmas. It is now available online in PDF and here on our blog. Each article is linked individually below. Articles with timely information that has changed have been updated as of… Read more »
December 18, 2018
Now after [the wise men] had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ Then Joseph got up,… Read more »
December 3, 2018
During this season of Advent, as we wait for the birth of a poor, refugee child who brings salvation to us all, we remember the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt. We remember that the Holy Family had to flee their home in search of safety for their child. We remember that the Holy Family were… Read more »
November 28, 2018
A pesar de que la situación se deteriora rápidamente en la frontera de EE. UU. y México, la administración de Trump ha propuesto una nueva ley que cambiaría drásticamente a quienes damos la bienvenida como recién llegados a nuestra sociedad. La ley, cuyo período de comentarios en curso finaliza el 10 de diciembre, daría mayor… Read more »
November 27, 2018
Even as the situation rapidly deteriorates at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Administration has proposed a new rule that would drastically reshape who we welcome as newcomers to our society. The rule, whose ongoing comment period ends on Dec. 10, would place a higher value on those who are affluent and challenge hard-working families in their… Read more »
November 2, 2018
Holy God, as you have accompanied your people through times of captivity, wilderness, and exile, shelter and sustain all those who flee persecution, oppression, warfare, violence, hunger, and poverty. Open our hearts and homes, our gates and doors, so that they might find safety, peace, and welcome— a place to live in freedom and without… Read more »
