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Martha Koenig Stone wrote a new post, Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor! 6 years, 6 months ago
A Pastoral Response to the Migrant Caravan
I’ve been watching reports of the migrant caravan from Central America, awestruck by the grit and determination of those refugees. What is it like to leave your h […]
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Martha Koenig Stone's profile was updated 7 years, 9 months ago
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I don’t suppose it would have been as much fun if the caravan had been directed to the nine US consulates in Mexico to apply legally.
Asylum seekers can only apply for asylum on U.S. land. That is the legal procedure. Period.
That is, applying at a US consulate is not legal procedure.
Fleeing general violence is not grounds for asylum.
Our church sponsored a Nepali family. After a number of years of doing things the right way, I attended the naturalization ceremony. Eighty-one people from nineteen countries. Paid their dues, did it the right way. Should I have stood up and yelled “CHUMPS!”
I see the folks in Tijuana aren’t happy, either. Do we call them racists?
There’s Aasia Bibi, who, with her family, is fleeing Pakistani lynch mobs. How about them? I see Theresa May has refused them asylum for fear of offending Brit Muslims.