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July 2025

July 21, 2025

The moral response to immigration enforcement: negotiation

Next Sunday's reading, it turns out, is a timely one: the first part of the...

July 04, 2025

Actually, Card. Cupich is hurting, not helping, immigrants

This is the message that Cardinal Cupich plays on repeat: immigrants have done nothing wrong;...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Biden’s immigration bill will not “fix” illegal immigration

Remember the George Bush immigration reform proposal in 2006, when he claimed that he would...

January 2021

January 20, 2021

In which we learn that Biden isn’t a moderate after all

Let's start with immigration. Remember the "path to citizenship" and "earned legalization" promises? -- that...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

545 separated kids? Why that’s not what it seems

If Donald Trump was trying to make corruption charges stick on Biden (the media's refusal...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

Is Immigration Restrictionism on The Sin List?

That's the gist of an argument among fellow Patheos writers that seems to have transpired...

January 2019

January 19, 2019

Reports are swirling that Trump is planning on proposing a DACA/TPS extension in exchange for...

January 14, 2019

What does it mean to be pro-open borders, and why does it matter?

Here's an Eric Zorn column from a couple days ago, partially reprinted in Sunday's Trib: ...

January 11, 2019

What if Trump doesn’t care?

So we are now actually arriving at that point at which government workers are about...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Kids, Cages, Part 2

No, I am not a proponent of unnecessarily separating children from their parents. At the...

June 15, 2018

Germans, Americans, Illegal Immigration, and “Kids in Cages”

Here are a smattering of thoughts which I had had good intentions of blogging about...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

From the library: Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream, True Tales of Mexican Migration, by Sam Quinones

So. . . I got this book (an older one, published in 2007 and deaccessioned...

February 07, 2018

Two (incomplete) immigration anecdotes

The first, from an article in the Chicago Tribune, "A Kansas chemistry professor got his...

February 02, 2018

Why I object to unconditional “Dream” legalization

To here the activists tell it, Congress ought to, indeed has the moral obligation, to...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

Jane the Actuary solves illegal immigration!

Most Americans believe the following two things: We should allow that portion of the illegal...

January 23, 2018

What a DACA photoessay reveals

The line we generally hear about illegal immigrants is this: they lived in grinding poverty...

January 18, 2018

Jane the Actuary’s opinion on illegal immigration

Every so often I feel like I need to type this up: what I'd like...

September 2017

September 08, 2017

What about Bannon and the Bishops?

The U.S. Catholic bishops are, unsurprisingly, angry at the Trump administration's plan to cancel the...

September 08, 2017

“Enhanced border security” is an unserious DACA compromise

I raised the issue the other day, of what an appropriate compromise would be, that...

September 07, 2017

Why we can’t solve illegal immigration; plus, a reader poll

Why can't we solve the issue of illegal immigration? First, genuine policy disagreements. There are...

September 06, 2017

Why “Dream”-ing isn’t enough

I have just a few minutes before I have to start work, but I want...

September 04, 2017

A DREAM Act do-over?

Let's review DREAM Act history, shall we? (And, by the way, I reject the terminology...

August 2017

August 05, 2017

Immigration, labor shortages, wage hikes, and “lazy Americans”

In immigration news lately (links selected for convenience rather than endorsement of any specific news

March 2017

March 04, 2017

What’s the purpose of deferred deportation?

For discussion: Here's a recent New York Times article on illegal immigrants with deportation orders...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Why the immigration-raid fear? Thank facebook and twitter

Earlier this week, the newspaper was full of articles like this one: "Trump rhetoric has...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Working backwards on immigration, and a Cupich gripe

Today Cardinal Cupich had a piece in the op-ed section in the Chicago Tribune, titled...

January 09, 2017

A bit of irony on minimum wage/immigration advocacy

Here's a piece at MarketWatch.com that was floating around twitter this weekend: "Your food and...

October 2016

October 09, 2016

What happens to Trumpism?

Let's stipulate that Trump will not win the election, that the polling showing him ahead,...

September 2016

September 02, 2016

What’s the purpose of immigration?

that is, in the year 2016, why do we allow strangers into our country? Is...