By Megan Staub I moved from Pennsylvania to South Carolina two weeks before a major, evacuation-inducing hurricane and five weeks before last year’s presidential election. I discovered that there’s nothing like a natural disaster...
By John Seel, Ph.D. When rejection is the overwhelming context, being treated as a political ping-pong only aggravates the sentiment. Such is the day-to-day reality of DACA dreamers, who don’t need partisan debate as...
By Maryada Vallet She walks the dusty trails until her ankles swell and her back pulsates in pain. Her womb, distended in the eighth month of pregnancy, slows her down, yet also gives her...
By Kristyn Komarnicki At the launch of ESA’s PrayforDREAMers campaign last month, when DACA recipient Vanessa Upegui-Seel spoke at Eastern University about her experience as an undocumented immigrant who was bought to the US at the age of...
By Katelyn Durst We are here and you’d like to forget it, have us more hidden then our black faces and tired, old eyes. Isn’t it enough to leave my own country as a...
By Christie Purifoy When President Trump announced the end of DACA, another battleground in his ongoing fight against immigrants and immigration, I observed my blonde, blue-eyed, non-Spanish-speaking child with alarm. His biological link to Mexico...
I Was An Undocumented Immigrant It is a curious thing, the border—a fence, a few feet high, made of scrap metal, and with two different realities on each side. It divides everything, and it...
By James K. P. Williams Editor’s Note: ESA is launching a nationwide call to prayer for DREAMers and for clean legislation to replace DACA. Click here for more information. Also, watch a Facebook Live...
By Katie Tan Last month, I wrote about how I was overcome with despair at the evil in the world. Today, I am overcome by the evil within us—in America, in the actions of...
by Becky Baik I find I have been pondering this question a lot lately, and not just because it happens to be the promotional tagline for my husband’s favorite soon-to-be-released video game. We live...
