Author Archives: Karen Levine

COVID-19 POSES GRAVE THREAT TO MIGRANTS IN DETENTION AND IN MPP

While many of us adjust to the myriad difficulties of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly 37,000 migrants are trapped like dry timber in US detention centers, where the COVID-19 pandemic will spread imminently like wildfire, causing unnecessary deaths and further strain on our medical system. This story is not making headlines, nor is it …

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Ways to Get Involved/Organizations to Support for Justice on the Border

The delegation of the Western MA Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice who traveled to the Brownsville/Matamoros border for a week in February 2020 have seen and felt very directly the hardship faced bythe migrants stuck in the tent encampment in Matamoros, as well as the amazing organizations and individuals providing much needed care every day. …

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Light in the Dark

Having just returned from our week immersed at the southern border of Brownsville/Matamoros, I am struck by the many ways that I witnessed “light in the dark”. In the face of enormous fear, danger, and harsh, cumulative injustice, the migrants of Matamoros, whose hearts seem buoyed by indomitable faith, carry on with beautiful resilience. We …

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