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URTZ: Learning From Jordanian Hospitality

URTZ: Learning From Jordanian Hospitality

By Hannah Urtz November 9, 2018

When I lost my credit card in a crowded market last month, I initially felt panic. I frantically shuffled from vendor to vendor, retracing my steps to ask if anyone had seen it. Nobody had. Yet, as...

VIEWPOINT: In Defense of Birthright Citizenship

By Anahi Figueroa-Flores November 9, 2018

When I first read about President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship by executive order, the potential consequences for my younger siblings and myself flooded my thoughts. This action...

Poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

The Literary World Discriminates Against Undocumented Immigrant Writers, Poets Say

By Riley Rogerson October 18, 2018

Undocumented immigrant poets face obstacles in the literary world because of their immigration status, poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and assistant professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State...

GONZALEZ: A Lesson in Engaging With Others

By Luis Gonzalez August 31, 2018

Whether you are beginning your first year at Georgetown University or your last, welcome to the Hilltop for another academic year! On my Georgetown journey, I have come to better understand my salient...

FLORES: Collaboration, Not Division, Needed on Immigration

By Abel Cruz Flores August 28, 2018

As a candidate, Donald Trump disparaged Mexican and Central American immigrants by saying they are bringing drugs and crime to the United States. Trump also pledged the swift removal of immigrants without...

GUERRERO: Kirstjen Nielsen Went to Georgetown. That Doesn’t Make Her a Hoya

By Andrea Guerrero July 2, 2018

Georgetown University prides itself on providing a “world-class learning experience … [where] students are challenged to engage in the world and become men and women in the service of others, especially...

PERALTA: Hopes of an Incoming Hoya

By J. Martin Peralta April 10, 2018

I never imagined I would one day have the opportunity to attend my dream college. My parents migrated to a small border town in southern Arizona from northern Mexico in the late 1990s, when they were...

DILLON: American Dreamin

DILLON: American Dreamin’

By Raymond W. Dillon Jr. February 13, 2018

Earlier this week, I awoke from a vivid nightmare. I dreamt that my daughter had been forcibly taken by the police and incarcerated. Her crime was her failure to produce adequate documentation of her legal...

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Newark Archbishop Advocates Role of Church in Immigration Debate

By Will Cassou February 9, 2018

Giving a face to immigrants without documentation is essential to advocating for their rights, Cardinal Joseph Tobin said during a visit to Georgetown University on Monday. Tobin, the archbishop of...

GONZALEZ PORRAS: Standing for My Own Humanity

By Arisaid Gonzalez Porras February 8, 2018

As I entered the Longworth House Office Building, my heart was pounding. I was going to be in the presence of 435 Congressmen, 100 Senators and the president of the United States — and they would all...

BOSCO: The Jesuit Case for Dreamers

BOSCO: The Jesuit Case for ‘Dreamers’

By Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J. February 5, 2018

As our country nears a showdown on immigration policy and we at Georgetown University worry about the plight of our own “Dreamers,” the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program,...

ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SHAMBAUGH

Portraits That Defy a President

By The Hoya Staff January 19, 2018

    The Hoya spoke with five members of the Georgetown community — from Haiti, South Sudan, El Salvador and Cameroon — who shared their thoughts on the president’s remarks and...

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