Vincentian Heritage

This is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin founder and former Executive Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. He talks about responding to the federal government’s proposed regulations that would make asylum seekers ineligible for asylum and related remedies based on purported public health considerations. We encourage you to file your own comments opposing part or all of the proposed procedures and asking the government to withdraw the entire proposed rule. To assist you in obtaining a link to the proposed procedures or in filing your comment, you may incorporate your remarks into one of the templates provided by the following:

The National Immigrant Justice Center’s template is at:

https://immigrantjustice.salsalabs.org/asylumregsphcomment/index.html

If you are concerned about unaccompanied minors or children refugee issues, you can find the Young Center’s template at:

https://www.theyoungcenter.org/stand-with-asylum-seekers

Both websites provide additional information on how the proposed regulations restrict access to the courts and prevent bona fide applicants from presenting their cases for asylum. To be accepted by the government, please make sure your comments are filed on or before 11:59 p.m. EDT, Monday, August 10 2020.

For additional information on the pretext of the public health need for these proposals, see: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/new-asylum-ban-recycled-pretext-proposed-rule-would-illegally-unjustly-bar-many-asylum

Please share this podcast and links with members of your community or faith organizations, family members and friends. Encourage them to file comments to help ensure that our nation continues to offer shelter for refugees in need. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

In this episode Rev. Craig B. Mousin discusses the deployment of federal officers to Portland in reaction to the ongoing protests. He discusses the problem of relying on federal immigration officers for local law enforcement and links some of Chicago’s responses to federal interference in local matters.

He references a previous podcast about DACA recipients and their families and communities. It is available here:

https://soundcloud.com/bcicirel/it-is-more-than-just-the-dreamers?in=bcicirel/sets/vincentian-heritage-podcast

For more insight into the distinction between the constitutional constraints on Customs And Border Enforcement and local law enforcement, see a blog co-authored by a former colleague at DePaul College of Law’s Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic, Linus Chan, now an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School: “Trump’s Paramilitary Unites Trained at the Border for the Assaults on Portland Moms,” by Linus Chan and Carrie L. Rosenbaum. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/trump-cbp-units-border-portland-moms-attacked.html

This is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin founder and former Executive Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. He talks about responding to the federal government’s proposed regulations entitled “Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review.”

We encourage you to file your own comments opposing part or all of the proposed procedures and asking the government to withdraw the entire proposed rule. To assist you in obtaining a link to the proposed procedures or in filing your comment, you may incorporate your remarks into one of the templates provided by the following:

The National Immigrant Justice Center offers this template for any community member concerned about access to asylum:

https://immigrantjustice.salsalabs.org/asylumcomment-community/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d78349f2-cad4-443c-a2bf-e8477db23171

If you are concerned about unaccompanied minors or children refugee issues, you might find the template of the Young Center helpful: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/defend-asylum

Both websites provide additional information on how the proposed regulations restrict access to the courts and prevent bona fide applicants from presenting their cases for asylum. Please make sure your comments are filed on or before 11:59 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 15, 2020.

Please share this podcast and links with members of your community or faith organizations, family members and friends. Encourage them to file comments to help ensure that our nation continues to offer shelter for refugees in need. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

If you would like more information about the documentary, “Brightness of Noon, the Intersect of Faith, Refugees and Immigrants, Part II,” see: https://www.divacommunications.com/documentaries/brightness-of-noon-2/

Rev. Craig B. Mousin founder and former Executive Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law talks about the June, 2020 18, DACA ruling by the United States Supreme Court and what DACA means for the Vincentian Community and DePaul Students.

For more information visit: National Immigrant Justice Center: https://immigrantjustice.org/issues/daca-and-dreamers

We reference this previous episode in this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/bcicirel/it-is-more-than-just-the-dreamers?in=bcicirel/sets/vincentian-heritage-podcast

A podcast written by Rev. Robert Maloney, C.M.

To read the text go here: http://blogs.depaul.edu/dmm/2020/04/01/covid-19-some-wisdom-from-the-past-the-experience-of-st-vincent-de-paul/

This podcast, “Rights Disappear When US Policy Engages Children as Weapons of Deterrence” was written and read by Rev. Craig B. Mousin. It originally appeared in the AMA’s Journal of Ethics (AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(1):E58-66).

This podcast was recorded with the permission of the ABA Journal of Ethics. All references are footnoted in the Journal article which can be found at:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3317913

That entire issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics addressed immigration and refugee issues from a medical or ethical perspective. You can find the full journal at: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/health-care-undocumented-immigrants

Written by Jack Melito C.M.

read by David Edward Sims

Written by Jack Melito C.M.

read by David Edward Sims

Written by Jack Melito C.M.

read by David Edward Sims

Written by Jack Melito C.M.

read by David Edward Sims