Learn More About Title 42 - A Borderland Update
The Rev. Canon Lee Curtis, Canon to the Ordinary, Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande
This week’s Borderland Update comes from The Rev. Canon Lee Curtis, Canon to the Ordinary for the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande. In this update, Lee shares information about Title 42 and how it impacts the RGBM community.
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RGBM Cycle of Prayer
While Title 42 is impacting families and individuals. We are thanking God no unaccompanied children are being expelled at the border and more families are being allowed to pursue their legal asylum claim. We continue to pray for all those fleeing violence and danger.
The administration directed ICE against the detention of pregnant and nursing women. We are reminded to pray for this extra vulnerable population. May these expectant mothers experience love and care and the protection of God as they journey to look for a safe place.
When the federal judge in Texas ruled DACA unlawful, it had an immediate impact on new applicants to the program. It also creates additional instability for current DACA recipients. We are praying for those affected by these changes and crying out for a permanent solution for Dreamers!
As the number of refugees allowed to resettle in this country increases, please pray for the structures needed. May places and people of faith see the opportunity to step into proximity with these families and have the willingness to be the welcome of Christ to those building a new life in the U.S.
We must not forget hundreds of migrant children being held in detention in less than ideal conditions and the need for states to welcome them. Please pray for the health, safety, and peace of these vulnerable children.
Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples (John 13:35, NLT). This community shows us every day what love on the loose looks like. Thank you for engaging with us as we seek to live out lives of biblical hospitality!
Join us in this prayer (from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services):
You made all nations to inhabit the whole earth.
Help us to recognize your presence
in the refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers
who flee from their place of birth,
seeking safety and welcome in our nations and our communities.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.