{"id":434542,"date":"2026-08-16T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434542\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:14:07","slug":"faith-inspires-us-to-accompany-migrants-facing-harsh-cruelty-by-ice-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434542\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith inspires us to accompany migrants facing harsh cruelty by ICE \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cMinistry offers migrants solace: \u2018You\u2019re not alone\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/07\/for-the-past-year-volunteers-of-many-faiths-have-ministered-to-immigrants-in-court-you-are-not-alone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 10<\/a>): I appreciated the front-page article but feel it failed to portray the fundamental motivation in this ministry. I am a volunteer in that program. It is not just to accompany and support immigrants who are trying to do the right and \u201clegal\u201d thing by coming to their court and ICE appointments. It is at the core of our understanding of our faith.<\/p>\n<p>We are members of many different faith communities \u2014 mine being Christian. There are some 400 verses in the Bible that call for the kind, just and compassionate treatment of immigrants, foreigners and refugees. Hospitality to the \u201cstranger\u201d or \u201csojourner\u201d is one of the most repeated commands in Scripture. This, I believe, should be the front-page news in a Christian nation, rather than stories of cruel, mean and all-too-often unjust actions to detain and expel immigrants and break up families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 Bill Radatz,\u00a0Chula Vista<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cMinistry offers migrants solace: \u2018You\u2019re not alone\u2019\u201d (Aug. 10): I appreciated the front-page article but feel it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-434542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}