Reads of the Week: Protection for Legal Immigrants, Donor Privacy Rights, and the CCP’s 100th Anniversary
Each week, we’ll be featuring opinion pieces from the alumni and current participants of AF’s Writing Fellows Program. A few highlights from the past week are below. Do you dream of having bylines like these? Learn more about how the Writing Fellows Program can help boost your writing career!
It’s Time to Stand Up for Documented Dreamers, Too by Sam Peak (Spring 2018) in The Bulwark
For most Americans, turning 21 might mean the freedom to rent a car, buy alcohol or cigarettes, or get into clubs and casinos. But for Pareen Mhatre, turning 21 meant filling out a stack of forms to convince a giant bureaucracy not to kick her out of the only country she knows.
Pareen was 4 months old when her parents, then international students, brought her to the United States. She was raised her in Iowa City, where her mom now works as an instructional services manager for the University of Iowa’s College of Nursing and her father serves as a senior applications developer for the College of Medicine. The school sponsored them for green cards nine years ago, but due to crisis-level backlogs, they still have decades to wait. The type of visas that Pareen’s parents are working under were originally meant to last six years, but Congress waived this rule in 2000 so employers could retain their workers as they wait in line for permanent residency…
Supreme Court Restores Privacy in Smackdown of California by Luke Wachob (Fall 2018) in the Washington Examiner
When you join with others in support of a cause, state officials don’t have a right to track you. That’s the upshot of last week’s Supreme Court ruling affirming the right to support nonprofit groups without being monitored by the state.
In an opinion likely to be recognized as a landmark case, the court struck down a California requirement that charities turn over a list of their major supporters before soliciting donations. The state failed to prove it needed the lists to enforce its tax laws or anything else…
CCP Celebrates 100 Years of Persecution by Arielle Del Turco (Summer 2020) in RealClearWorld
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and even state-approved churches are being compelled by the government to celebrate the centennial of the atheistic, totalitarian regime. Unfortunately for the Chinese people—and especially for religious believers—China’s economic advancements and increased global prominence have been stained by religious persecution and political oppression at the hands of the CCP.
Church choirs and congregations across China are waving the red flag and dancing behind church pulpits singing “the grace of the Party is deeper than the sea” and “listen to Party’s words, follow Party’s path.” Being forced to adopt and praise party values is the price churches must pay to be officially approved to operate in China under the umbrella of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement or the China Christian Council…