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Immigration Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/immigration/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:50:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://i0.wp.com/cindydeboer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cindydeboericon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Immigration Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/immigration/ 32 32 184530663 The Pond Scum Exchange (Why voting matters less than you think) https://cindydeboer.com/2020/09/17/the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think https://cindydeboer.com/2020/09/17/the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:32:35 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=3686 When we bought our sucky crack-house we thought the fantastic view of the zoo/park across the street might possibly redeem the pitiful structure. However, the park struggles financially and some things have become a bit of an eyesore. All summer long our park pond has looked like this: Our neighborhood Facebook group recently debated the […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2020/09/17/the-pond-scum-exchange-why-voting-matters-less-than-you-think/feed/ 14 3686 A Hiding Place (When the next Holocaust comes, you can come live with me) https://cindydeboer.com/2019/11/22/a-hiding-place-when-the-next-holocaust-comes-you-can-come-live-with-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-hiding-place-when-the-next-holocaust-comes-you-can-come-live-with-me https://cindydeboer.com/2019/11/22/a-hiding-place-when-the-next-holocaust-comes-you-can-come-live-with-me/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:38:52 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=1662 Upstairs, on the third floor of our former crack home, awaits a really big and really empty, comfortably furnished attic apartment. Now that we are empty nesters, we’re deciding how best to use it. An exchange student? A foster child? Airbnb?   Perhaps. But because our pastor mentioned the Holocaust this past Sunday and because these […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/11/22/a-hiding-place-when-the-next-holocaust-comes-you-can-come-live-with-me/feed/ 5 1662 Jesus Ain't Your Sexy Valentine https://cindydeboer.com/2019/02/14/jesus-aint-your-sexy-valentine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jesus-aint-your-sexy-valentine https://cindydeboer.com/2019/02/14/jesus-aint-your-sexy-valentine/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:41:20 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=960 Clean water crisis. Human-Trafficking. Immigration. Orphan care. Affordable Housing. Failing Education Systems. Gun Violence. Teen-age pregnancy. Sitting in this hip coffee shop I can hear twenty-somethings all around me talking about what’s wrong with humanity and how they aim to fix it. Millennials are raising the bar for the rest of us. They’re hyper-aware of […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/02/14/jesus-aint-your-sexy-valentine/feed/ 4 960 Will Muslims, Mexicans, and My daughter be forced to wear visible ID badges? https://cindydeboer.com/2017/01/27/will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges https://cindydeboer.com/2017/01/27/will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:01:22 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=574 I recently met an Armenian woman. She wore the traditional hijab and jellaba – the head covering and long flowing coat typical for Middle Eastern women and often associated with Islam.   Her skin was dark tan and her deep brown eyes were lined with kohl. She looked strikingly similar to every other Muslim woman I […]

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