“Brothers and sisters, let us all ask ourselves about this umpteenth tragedy. It is a shameful moment.”

U.S. sisters were called to the border to assist asylum seekers. They (obviously) came through.

As the refugee crisis overwhelmed Europe, religious groups devised an alternative: private funding for resettlement. Two members of the Community of Sant’Egidio write that the Humanitarian Corridors model could work in the U.S.

‘It is a question of perspective. Whose perspective do we adopt when we ask questions like that?’

Many migrants and asylum seekers are parents doing their best to make difficult decisions, writes Joanna Williams, executive director of the Kino Border Initiative. That recognition should guide our border policies.

We cannot continue to punish the children of immigrants and create a caste of undereducated residents, write Mary Beth Yount and Michael M. Canaris. All college students should be eligible for federal loan and grant programs.