Margaret Regan (2)
Auteur van The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
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Margaret Regan is the author of the award-winning book The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands (Beacon Press), a 2010 Southwest Book of the Year and a Common Read for the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
Author: Margaret Regan
Isbn: 978-0-8070-7983-6
This book was published in 2015, but it is certainly not out of date! The political temperament of the day makes this book necessary reading, though I wish that the ones reading would step back and look at it as a humanitarian rather than a political document. What is more, I wish and I sincerely pray that those who profess to be Christians would read it in light of their relationship to Christ and not in light of their political allegiances.
Sadly, that is where the greatest challenge is.
You see, I lay a charge against the church in America today. I charge that the sin of American Christianity is that it sees itself as American first and Christian second. This church embraces Romans 13:1 and forgets all about Acts 5:29!
This charge is one I will write more on in a more appropriate place. For now, it comes to mind because Margaret Regan has written about a real tragedy. This book is about the treatment of immigrant families at the hands of our authorities and the suffering being endured by fellow human beings. It is comprised of story after story of men, women, and children who face terrible conditions, inhumane treatment, and institutional neglect.
It is about children left behind and alone when parents are arrested and imprisoned for the crime of working and trying to provide. It is about husbands and wives torn apart from the over zealous persecution of a crime that does not merit or call for the severe response it seems to elicit.
Look, I know how some (sadly, even Christians!) will argue here. These people are committing crimes! These people should come by legal means! These people are taking jobs from Americans and keeping wages low!
I can appreciate the concerns even if I don’t care for the manner in which they are presented. And this is an issue I will be writing on again.
All I can say is read this book. Look upon the people it speaks of as fellow human beings and have some empathy for the suffering of those around us.… (meer)