EVERYDAY PEACEMAKER:

IMMIGRATION

Everyday Peacemakers: See, Immerse, Contend and Restore.

 

Here are some ways you can be an everyday peacemaker for immigration.

 

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SEE the humanity, dignity and image of God in everyone.

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• Email Jen to do a monthly book club, reading In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero

• Signup for National Immigration Forum updates: Noorani’s notes & more

• Watch The Stranger, a documentary on immigration in the US

• Read about Immigration in Minnesota at MN Compass

• Join We Welcome Refugees in supporting refugees and immigrants (Instagram)

• Educate yourself about immigration in the US. Start with learning about asylum seekers, refugees, and DACA individuals.

  • National Immigration Law Center has a lot of current issues explained

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and learn about worldwide refugees

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Asylum Seekers and learn around asylum

  • USA for UNHCR has our country’s information on refugees

  • United Nations issues affecting the world today: poverty, migration, human rights, & more

  • Refugees International is an independent organization helping refugees

  • Human Rights Watch for worldwide human rights issues

  • Human Rights First with information on immigration, refugees, national security, & foreign policy

  • American Immigration Council on all things immigration

• ​Eat or shop in a restaurant/neighborhood with immigrants

 

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IMMERSE by moving toward conflict with tools to heal rather than to win.

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• Call your state representatives and senators to request more immigrant, refugees, and asylum seekers allowed in the US and ask for better conditions for them at the border.

• Go on an Immersion Trip to San Diego/Tijuana with the Global Immersion Project 

• Go on a Border Encounter to El Paso/Juarez with Abara Frontiers

 

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CONTEND, not by getting even, but getting creative in love.​

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• Get involved locally

  • Join MIRAC - Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (Facebook)

  • Join Release MN 8 for Minnesota’s southeast Asian immigration issues (Facebook)

• Donate to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (Instagram)

• Donate to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

• Pray for those forcibly separated from family, those persecuted in their home countries, or those displaced from their home countries.

 

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RESTORE by sharing tables with former enemies and celebrate the big and small ways God is restoring our broken world.

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• Have a conversation with someone who has different views than you.