El amor cruza fronteras / Love crosses borders
At the gates of ICE, where compliance is promised safety, faithfulness is increasingly transformed into a mechanism of surveillance, profit, and quiet cruelty—and the question before us is how we will resist without losing our humanity.
What does it mean to remain awake in a time of rapid change, deep injustice, and moral confusion? Preaching in conversation with Martin Luther King Jr.’s final year, this sermon asks whether we are learning to see our neighbors—especially migrants and the marginalized—or whether we, like Rip Van Winkle, are sleeping through a revolution that is already reshaping the world.
In the shadow of Atlanta’s ICE field office, heartbreak and hope meet. Through quiet acts of compassion, Casa Alterna volunteers remind us that love—especially in the face of cruelty—is a sacred form of resistance.
He arrived on his 18th birthday, facing detention or deportation—until one simple "yes" changed everything.
While politicians celebrate Independence Day with fireworks and funding for new migrant jails, Casa Alterna reclaims the spirit of July 4th at the gates of ICE, where resistance and hospitality converge as a faithful act of freedom.
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