Sergio González

He said this in an interview published yesterday: "It’s actually healing for people to see the people who represent the church and represent God in public really care about this and that they’re not going to shrink from the violence. That they’re not afraid of what’s going to happen."

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Such important reporting by @jackjenkins.me. If you want a legal analysis on religious liberty and immigration, check out our report.

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(Also, Rev. Kardon in the article was my college roommate and not at all surprised to see her doing this amazing work).

What a phenomenal lecture - thanks for bringing this amazing work to Marquette! Really looking forward to reading the new book soon.

Faith and Power Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community buildingToo often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not cen...

For more on the history of faith-based religious activism and what real accompaniment looks like, check out my chapter on sanctuary in Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945.

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Accompaniment, as theologian Roberto Goizueta notes, is “not an abstraction, or a merely ‘spiritual’ reality.” It instead requires a “mutual bodily presence” from all participants who have agreed to work in this partnership.

YouTube video by Good Faith Media Good Faith Weekly, 09/12/2025 - Political Unrest + Anita Huizar-Hernandez, Lloyd Barba & Sergio G...

New: 2024-2025 PRRI Public Fellows Anita Huizar-Hernandez, @elprofebarba.bsky.social, and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social spoke to @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social about the oral history project they conducted to better understand shifts in Americans' views on immigration

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Mass Deportation | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera On July 8, 2025, Alberto Rojas, the Bishop of San Bernardino, offered a dispensation to faithful in his diocese from the holy Catholic obligation of attending Mass. This dispensation extends to those ...

Religious liberals have advocated for immigrant rights for decades. Sanctuary churches are an example.

I offer a brief history of the sensitive locations memo and argue that Trump is redrawing the boundaries of public religion in America.

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Open Borders - 99% Invisible A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinem...

Honored for the dedicated episode from @99pi.org about my book and open borders.

Give it a listen here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/633-...
Special thanks to producer Lasha Madan.
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Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right.

I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...

Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access

Is it normal or legal for federal ICE officers to wear masks during operations? Readers asked us if it's legal for ICE officers to wear masks that cover their faces during raids. Here's what we learned.

As I told the Journal Sentinel, any time we’ve seen immigration officers conceal their identities it’s been accompanied by a further degradation of general public trust in law enforcement. This escalation does nothing but sow fear in our communities.

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I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city

The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis

Join @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, and Angélica Cházaro as they discuss how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism.

Co-sponsored by @detentionwatchnetwork.org

Appreciate it, @robwisc.bsky.social!

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.

(Via Christopher Hale)

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

2/ @micarosenberg.bsky.social, Perla Trevizo, Gabriel Sandoval, Ronna Risquez, Adrian Gonzalez and I have been reporting on what the government did to these 238 men, beginning with this story today:
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The Future of Sanctuary - Dissent Magazine Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

From our spring issue: @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social on the sanctuary movement.

Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Thanks for sharing, Tim!

When asked, I had to share my thoughts on @uwmadison.bsky.social granting an honorary doctorate to the architect of one of this country's most restrictive pieces of immigration legislation. Really a head-scratching move.

Making Wisconsin: How sanctuary movements have succeeded and failed WUWM's Making Wisconsin series dives into the history of sanctuary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and our country with Sergio González, Marquette University assistant professor of history and author.

Always happy to jump on @wuwmradio.bsky.social to discuss Wisconsin's immigration history, especially when we get to focus on the tradition of sanctuary in our state. Take a listen!

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You *have* to check out @elprofebarba.bsky.social's latest in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Blazing new paths in the study of sanctuary movements!

Here's @detentionwatchnetwork.org and local groups statement on ICE's arrest of Mayor Baraka
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Collabs w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social are the best! Here’s another one and special thnx to @dissentmag.bsky.social !

Spring 2025 - Dissent Magazine

Our spring issue, Border Politics, is out today!

www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/spring...

The Future of Sanctuary - Dissent Magazine Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

Check out the article here along with the rest of the stellar special edition on border politics.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

So proud of this co-written piece, put together with my compa @elprofebarba.bsky.social, in the latest edition of @dissentmag.bsky.social. We review the history of the sanctuary movement and what it means for faith-based migrant justice movements today.

Thanks so much for the thoughtful commemoration, Maddalena, and for all of your leadership!

The @oah.org Annual Conference on American History is just a few days away and we can't wait to see all of our members and friends in Chicago. Check out the lineup of meet-ups, panels, roundtables, and seminars we've got planned for #OAH25!

Thanks for reading, @hidehirota.bsky.social!