Immigration & Border Security
How the Bible, Torah, Quran, and Buddhist teachings treat the stranger, and what the Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses guarantee to every person, citizen or not.
17 questions
- What the Bible Says About Immigrants and ForeignersThe Bible commands love and just treatment of immigrants and foreigners more frequently than nearly any other obligation.
- Does the Constitution Give Due Process to All Immigrants?The Constitution explicitly protects "persons" rather than "citizens" — a deliberate textual choice in both the 5th and 14th Amendments.
- Mass Deportations and Constitutional Due ProcessReligious traditions consistently reject treating people as categories — the moral logic that "each person is worth a world" runs across Christianity…
- Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees Under U.S. and International LawProtection of refugees is among the most deeply rooted moral obligations across religious traditions — Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad were all refugees, and each…
- What the Founding Documents Say About ImmigrationThe founding documents are clearer about immigration than the contemporary debate suggests: the Declaration listed obstruction of immigration as a tyranny…
- Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment and Religious BelongingReligious traditions consistently teach that belonging — particularly the standing of children — is not contingent on circumstances of birth they cannot…
- Pausing Asylum While Accelerating Removals: A 'Deny-by-Delay' System?Religious traditions are alert to the particular corruption of preserving the form of a protection while destroying its function — James 2:15-16 in…
- Ordo Amoris: Vance, Pope Francis, and the Christian Order of LoveThe Vice President invoked Christian theology to defend mass deportation. The Pope of the Vice President's own church publicly rejected the reading.
- Trump v. Barbara: The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright CitizenshipReligious traditions hold that children are not punishable for their parents' actions or status.
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Defying a Supreme Court OrderReligious traditions hold that the state's power to take a person from their home is among the gravest powers it possesses — and must be checked by careful…
- ICE Raids at Churches, Schools, and HospitalsThe principle that some spaces must remain outside the immediate reach of state coercion is one of the oldest in religious tradition — built into the Torah's…
- The $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee and Welcoming the Skilled StrangerReligious traditions across the board affirm welcoming the skilled stranger as both moral obligation and wise stewardship.
- National Guard Troops as Immigration PoliceSoldiers and police are not interchangeable, and both American law and religious tradition insist on the distinction.
- Deaths and Abuse in ICE DetentionA country is judged, by every religious tradition that has thought about it, on how it treats the people it locks up — and the law judges it on whether civil…
- Asylum Metering at the Border: Mullin v. Al Otro LadoReligious traditions converge with unusual force on the refugee's right to ask — not to be guaranteed admission, but to be heard at the gate.
- Ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and SyriansReligious traditions are sharper about the people you have already welcomed than about the people you have not yet met — Leviticus tells you to love the…
- ICE Shootings and Lethal Force in Immigration EnforcementBeing in the country without authorization is a civil violation. Fleeing a traffic stop is not a capital offense. Tennessee v.