Attendees left with comprehensive action plans on how to support immigrants, including visiting the state capitol, writing to their elected officials about immigration justice, hosting fundraisers, and facilitating ‘Know Your Rights’ training.
More than 100 youths from 12 high schools gathered at Cristo Rey High School in southwest Detroit for Youth in Action for Immigration’s fifth annual conference on Friday, March 21. Youth in Action for Immigration is the youth-led council of Strangers No Longer, a statewide organization guided by Catholic faith to fight for immigration justice.
This conference was part of a larger effort to spread awareness and inspire action among Catholic high school students across Michigan. Marian High School teacher Michelle Denton explained that many of her students did not have personal experience with immigration, and events like these were key to developing empathy and inspiring students to take action.
Other Catholic students were fueled by their faith and personal experience with immigration to attend the conference. Sofia Dussan Bronson, a sophomore at Father Gabriel Richard High School in Ann Arbor and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, explained that her faith and background guided her to “lead with love, mercy, and hospitality, especially to the most vulnerable in (her) community, just like Jesus taught.”
Kimberly Redigan, the campus minister at Cristo Rey High School, contributed a reflection, empathizing that Jesus was a refugee and taught that “love has no borders, justice has no borders, and humanity has no borders.”
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