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  • Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students

    by Collin Binkley, posted Tuesday, July 14, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    BOSTON (AP) -- Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

    Leaders of 12 Christian organizations, including Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, had urged the Trump administration to rescind the policy. Read More

  • Christian groups oppose ICE rule on international students
    by Elana Schor, posted Friday, July 10, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leaders of 12 Christian organizations on Friday urged the Trump administration to rescind a policy requiring international students to leave the U.S. or transfer if their colleges hold classes entirely online this fall, saying it "falls short of American ideals."

    In a letter to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, shared with The Associated Press, the leaders wrote that the policy "robs our country of the significant contribution" international students make to their colleges on both a personal and economic level. It "lacks compassion" and "violates tenets of our faith," the letter continued, citing specific Biblical passages. Read More

  • Moore, others ask Trump not to rescind DACA
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, July 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore and other evangelical Christian leaders have asked President Trump to hold off on another effort to rescind a program for certain undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

    In a letter Wednesday (July 8), leaders of the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) urged the president to maintain Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) until Congress provides a permanent solution. They encouraged Trump to sign such a bill into law. Read More

  • Court rules against DACA revocation

    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, June 18, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday (June 18) the Trump administration erred in the way -- not in the fact -- it rescinded a program for certain undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Read More

  • NAMB, San Diego association back church planter in visa issue
    by Liz Tablazon/Biblical Recorder, posted Friday, January 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    SAN DIEGO (BP) -- The San Diego Southern Baptist Association (SDSBA) and the North American Mission Board (NAMB) are standing behind a British church planter and his family who are facing deportation at the end of the month.

    Obed Brefo, pastor of King's Cross Church in San Diego, and his wife Elena were working toward extending their religious (R1) visa and applying for permanent residency and eventual U.S. citizenship when the church sponsoring their visa terminated their application in 2018. Read More

  • EXPLAINER: ERLC, George Soros and Evangelical Immigration Table
    by BP Explainer, posted Thursday, January 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- A Breitbart.com article recently highlighted the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), an organization credited with persuading multiple governors to allow refugees to resettle in their states. The article also suggested the group has ties to the progressive billionaire George Soros. A number of blogs have circulated these rumors, charging the group and those affiliated with it as advancing an "open borders" mass immigration agenda. These claims have proved to be false. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: What we can learn from the shepherds
    by Milton A. Hollifield Jr., posted Friday, December 13, 2019 (3 years ago)

    "Most of us would expect that such a message would first be proclaimed to those with status and nobility," says Milton Hollifield, "rather than to lowly shepherds who probably didn't even own the sheep they were tending." Read More

  • Women's group hears 'heartbreaking' stories at border

    by Grace Thornton, posted Thursday, September 12, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    JUAREZ, Mexico (BP) -- The man was afraid that if he refused one more time, it might be his last.

    Or even worse -- it might seal his teenage daughter's fate.

    "In Guatemala, it's next to impossible to run a small business, because once you start doing well and making money, the gangs will come in and start demanding money" ... Read More

  • On the border: 'Urgent need' to show Christ's love
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, July 26, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    TIJUANA, Mexico (BP) -- The two adult sisters risked their lives in a months-long journey from Cameroon in Central Africa to Tijuana, Mexico. Southern Baptist pastor Marshal Ausberry was surprised to see them at the Southern U.S. border seeking asylum in America.

    "It's just not people from Central America and South America that are coming," Ausberry, first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, told Baptist Press following his trip last week to the border. "There are people from Africa and Haiti that have migrated to Mexico in attempts to come through the border to the United States." Read More