Posts from the ‘Matthew Soerens’ Category
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April 30th, 2013 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2013
[Filmed in Feb, 2013] “We could actually see Congress come together on a bipartisan basis to pass immigration legislation,” posits Matthew Soerens, US Church Training Specialist for World Relief. “There has been a lot of new momentum.” Congressmen are starting to take notice that a growing percentage of the population is unhappy with the current […]
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April 30th, 2013 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2013
“The first role of the church is discipleship,” says Matthew Soerens, US Church Training Specialist for World Relief. The Bible is not silent on the issue of immigration. God gives explicit direction about how His followers should treat the foreigner and the immigrant. The first role of the church should be to teach Christians what […]
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April 22nd, 2013 | Christian Living, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2013
“As a Christian I would start with the Bible,” suggests Matthew Soerens, US Church Training Specialist for World Relief. “This is actually a repeated theme in Scripture.” After this first step, Soerens states that we must move to action. Get to know your neighbors and use what you’ve learned in Scripture to address public policy, […]
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April 21st, 2012 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Jenny Yang, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2012
Secure Communities is the government’s way of prioritizing the deportation of undocumented criminals and people arrested for criminal activity by running an arrested person’s fingerprints against a federal immigration database. Local law enforcement officials are then given the authority to enforce immigration laws, even though immigration is generally a federal issue. “That creates a huge […]
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April 21st, 2012 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, HP :: Most Recent, Jenny Yang, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2012
The current immigration legislation allows for a great deal of abuse by citizen employers. “It promotes exploitative employers, because they know that a lot of immigrants are here without legal status,” according to Jenny Yang, Author and Director of Advocacy and Policy for World Relief’s Refugee and Immigration Program. “Because they’re here without legal status…they […]
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April 21st, 2012 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, HP :: Most Recent, Jenny Yang, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2012
“I think those are things we have to keep in mind really carefully as we look at legislation,” says Matthew Soerens, Author and World Relief Immigration and Refugee Expert. “We’re very concerned about asylum seekers.” The current immigration system does a poor job of providing opportunities for legal immigration, stopping illegal immigration, or effectively processing […]
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April 21st, 2012 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, HP :: Most Recent, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2012
“We’ve left it a little intentionally ambiguous,” says Matthew Soerens, Author and World Relief Immigration and Refugee Expert, “because the reality is, to pass a bill there’s going to have to be some compromise.” The dream is that our border would be secure (and humane) and that there would be sufficient means for immigrants to […]
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April 21st, 2012 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2012
“They’re very passionate people, very creative people…we’re not always,” says Matthew Soerens, Author and World Relief Immigration and Refugee Expert. While there is a small minority that really hate and fear immigrants, the majority of the passionate opponents of Comprehensive Immigration are simply unaware of the complexity of immigration issues. “What’s more common is people […]
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April 21st, 2012 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Jenny Yang, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, The Justice Conference 2012
“President Obama has actually been a very strong supporter,” according to Jenny Yang, Author and Director of Advocacy and Policy for World Relief’s Refugee and Immigration Program. In the past, both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have supported Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) as well, but the political backlash that results from a candidate’s support of […]
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April 5th, 2012 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Matthew Soerens, Max Findberg, The Justice Conference 2012
“Every year Obama has proposed a budget,” says Max Finberg, Director of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “and every year he’s proposed eliminating direct payments to farmers as one of those subsidies, and every year that’s gone nowhere.” There are also several bipartisan proposals being considered to […]
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