Author: Steven Volk

Edited by Steve Volk ([email protected])  Oberlin Community Supporting Immigrants (OCSI) does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide information, education, and analysis regarding the U.S. immigration system.   Know Your Rights: You can’t protect your rights unless you know what they are. Here’s a 2-page handout prepared by OCSI.  Previous issues…

OCSI Corner Do you need a speaker on immigration of “know your rights” for your local church, synagogue, or community group? Contact us at the email below. We can help!   PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  One Year and More…

As we come to the end of a very difficult year, we wish you strength, courage, and wisdom in the struggles ahead, and we send our hopes and prayers for a new year in which all our neighbors, in every town and city, on every street and avenue, will find acceptance, dignity, peace, and safety.…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  ‘No Sleep for ICE’: Inside the Protest Movement Keeping Immigration Agents Awake at Night (Time, December 19, 2025): When ICE agents finish a long day of raids and arrests in a new city,…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  A Year of Hell for Immigrants (Isabela Dias, Mother Jones, December 10, 2025): In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm. For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Here’s How Trump Has Made It Harder for Migrants Seeking Asylum and Citizenship (New York Times, December 5, 2025): In the wake of the National Guard shooting, the Trump administration has temporarily frozen…

Edited by Steve Volk ([email protected])  Oberlin Community Supporting Immigrants (OCSI) does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide information, education, and analysis regarding the U.S. immigration system.   Know Your Rights: You can’t protect your rights unless you know what they are. Here’s a 2-page handout prepared by OCSI.  Previous issues…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  The FBI Spied on a Signal Group Chat of Immigration Activists, Records Reveal (Guardian, November 21, 2025): Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings. Border Patrol…

Oberlin Community Supporting Immigrants (OCSI) does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide information, education, and analysis regarding the U.S. immigration system.   Know Your Rights: You can’t protect your rights unless you know what they are. Here’s a 2-page handout prepared by OCSI.  OCSI Corner Do you need a speaker…