Immigrants in the News

The N.Y. Times Magazine has a story (Nuevo Catholics) on the rejuvenation of American Catholicism through latino immigration.  Click here for the story.

The Times also had a story on the fears of farmers in upstate New York.  As record-setting enforcement of immigration laws upends old, unspoken arrangements, a new climate of fear is sweeping through the rural communities of western and central New York. “The farmers are just petrified at what’s happening to their workers,” said Maureen Torrey, an 11th-generation grower and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Buffalo branch whose family owns this field and more than 10,000 acres of vegetable and dairy farms.   Click here for the story.

KJ