Residents in Mexico and U.S. weigh in on rhetoric and reality
Paige Santiago '19 co-wrote this story.
Nuevo Progreso, Mexico — For more than two decades, 63-year-old Maria Luisa Lima Ortiz has been...
A policy memo issued in August by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) changed the way “unlawful presence” is determined and has the potential to affect international students at St. Joe’s.
The...
A week of solidarity with migrants
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) student ambassadors at St. Joe’s coordinate an Immigration Week every fall, focused on the stories of migrants around the world and ways...
What the decision to rescind DACA means for St. Joe's students
The Trump administration decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.
President...
Our rhetoric matters when we call for change
The Trump Administration announced this week that it is rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, throwing the status of the 800,000...
President Trump’s policies need to be more inclusive
In order to justify his executive order to temporarily ban immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, President Donald Trump said that it is...
Hawk Hill reflects on SJU March for All
About 300 students, faculty, and staff marched in response to President Trump’s executive order on immigration. The SJU March for All was in solidarity with...
Protecting undocumented immigrants
Earlier this week, Mayor Jim Kenney vowed to maintain Philadelphia’s status as a sanctuary city, despite President Trump’s executive order, signed on Jan. 25. The...
President Trump's temporary immigration ban
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, there has been a record of over 90 counts of plotted or successful radical Islamic terror attacks in the United States....
