A reminder, because a new post went up today, that the Episcopal Migration Caucus is posting a meditation on the lectionary readings with reference to Migration With Dignity, every week: episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/lectionary/ ⚓
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Overcrowding, bad (no) medical care, not enough food, filth — these are average and expected in this country’s jails and prisons everywhere.
ICE detention conditions aren’t below the norm — that’s the norm. That’s what 2 million ppl and their families experience every day.
It’s a book about prison abolition, and about sacraments, and about space and geography, and about how we build different kinds of communities. Constructive theology with practical effects, I hope. ⚓️
Can’t wait!
"This is a God who knows, in his body, what it is to suffer under the hellish forces of the nations that gloat as they massacre the innocent, and this God is going to burn it all down." sojo.net/articles/cul...
Within days of each other 2 men - Alberto Gutierrez Reyes of Mexico & Emmanuel Damas of Haiti - died in ICE custody after medical neglect. Their deaths bring the 2026 toll to 10 lives lost to ICE’s inhumane unconstitutional practices. 🚨Detention should never be a death sentence.🚨
I really believe this is a framework for faith-based movements to organize around, looking forward past the current crisis toward how we make justice for the future:
ICE talks abt undocumented humans w/ a “criminal record.”
Reminder that, as @prisonculture.bsky.social often says, many things are crimes that are not harmful & many things are harmful that are not crimes.
& that trauma & oppressive systems force impossible choices
& child rapists run the govt.
“None of the deportees are Cameroonian citizens. And almost all had received protection from American courts, which banned the government from sending them back to their home countries, where they would most likely face persecution, according to government documents obtained by The Times…”
last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.
Another quick quote: "This [ICE] exists today because of the prison industrial complex and the long history of warehousing Black, brown, Indigenous communities in the United States... there is no abolishing ICE without looking at [police, jails, sheriffs, etc]" @silkys13.bsky.social
So excited!
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Almost every reason people have for defunding or abolishing ICE is also a reason to defund or abolish the police, yet many people who are rightly calling for action against ICE would never come close to doing to the same for police. But this fight goes beyond just ICE. ICE represents a larger issue.
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”
@washingtonpost.com
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😂😂😂
Additionally, MIWRC needs funds to keep their emergency warming center open to our unhoused community members. Please contribute and share to help keep our relatives safe!
“This shooting exposes the depth of violence and dehumanization inherent to the U.S. immigration system, especially mass detention and deportation, which we have directly experienced in our lives and ministries.” — @holycinnamonroller.bsky.social
I can’t make things better, but today @holycinnamonroller.bsky.social and I put together preaching resources for Migration With Dignity Sunday on Feb. 8, and it was cathartic to write how I feel, in dialogue with scripture: bit.ly/PreachMWD2026 ⚓️
I see we’re at the, “C’mon, the Alabama state troopers were really being treated disrespectfully at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Also, a couple of them got scratches that day,” level of ICE apologetics.
Two truths I'm holding, trying to coach and support activists on the ground in MPLS:
1. Everything they're doing to love their neighbors is beautiful and brave and exactly what we need.
2. It is even more terrifying and exhausting than folks outside can imagine.
They/we will win, but it is so hard
While communities in Minneapolis & across the country mourn the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was executed by ICE, ICE has revealed that 4 people died in its custody in the first 10 days of the New Year: Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, Geraldo Lunas Campos, and Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres.
Dr. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has written many powerful works, but this one stopped me dead in my tracks when I first read it. Please take the time, and share widely.
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
Wow! Merry Christmas!
The Trump administration's threat to close NCAR over "climate alarmism" endangers vital research impacting weather forecasts, air safety and our daily lives.
We spent 2 days at El Refugio, a hospitality house near one of the largest immigration detention center in the U.S.
Families visiting detained people can go to the house to eat a meal or spend the night. Here's what we learned from people passing through.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...
The largest facilities between Nov. 11-Nov 28
(interval average daily population):
1. Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX: 2,764 detainees
2. Adams County, Natchez, MS: 2,246
3. Stewart Detention, Lumpkin, GA: 1,928
4. Adelanto IPC, Adelanto, CA: 1,851
5. South Texas IPC, Pearsall, TX: 1,680