Linda Dakin-Grimm – How Catholics should respond to immigration

Too often, Catholics take their cues from politics instead of from the church's social teaching, when forming their views on immigration. In this episode of Field Hospital, Jeannie and Mike talk to author and immigration lawyer Linda Dakin-Grimm about the real challenges faced by young people and families at the border, as well as our Gospel-based responsibilities, as Catholics, toward immigrants and refugees. 

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Linda worked thirty years as a corporate lawyer before shifting her focus to immigration justice. Since 2016, she has worked with more than seventy-five unaccompanied children and separated families, and acted as counsel in immigration-related class actions against the federal government. Linda also leads a group of interpreters and mentors who assist migrant children. Her first book, Dignity and Justice: Welcoming the Stranger at our Border, was published by Orbis Books in 2020. All proceeds from sales of Linda's book go to the Southern California Catholic Task Force on Immigration.

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LINKS:

Dignity and Justice: Welcoming the Stranger at our Border
By Linda Dakin-Grimm
https://bookshop.org/books/dignity-and-justice-welcoming-the-stranger-at-our-border/9781626983816

"Dignity & Justice: A Call to Conversion"
By Matt Kappadakunnel
https://wherepeteris.com/dignity-justice-a-call-to-conversion/

"A 3-question examination of conscience on immigration that all Catholics need to do"
By Cecilia González-Andrieu
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/10/18/3-question-examination-conscience-immigration-all-catholics-need-do

About Linda Dakin-Grimm
https://lindadg.com/about/