Author: Steven Volk

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  How to Protect People During ICE Raids: A Rapid Response Action Plan for Faith Communities (Votecommongood): This action plan equips faith communities to respond immediately and meaningfully when immigration enforcement threatens the well-being…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  ICE’s Family Separations Are Forcing Children to Parent Themselves (The Hill, August 8, 2025): Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids homes, workplaces and even community spaces, leaving children in the wake of their parents’…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families (New York Times, August 5, 2025): The practice appears to be a more targeted version of the mass separation of migrant children from their parents…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests (Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk, ProPublica, July 31, 2025): ProPublica has documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car…