Sergio González
@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
Historian of Midwestern Latinos, labor, religion, and sanctuary. Author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin.
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He said this in an interview published yesterday: "It’s actually healing for people to see the people who represent the church and represent God in public really care about this and that they’re not going to shrink from the violence. That they’re not afraid of what’s going to happen."
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
He said this in an interview published yesterday: "It’s actually healing for people to see the people who represent the church and represent God in public really care about this and that they’re not going to shrink from the violence. That they’re not afraid of what’s going to happen."
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This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Such important reporting by @jackjenkins.me. If you want a legal analysis on religious liberty and immigration, check out our report.
lawrightsreligion.org/our-work/rel...
(Also, Rev. Kardon in the article was my college roommate and not at all surprised to see her doing this amazing work).
lawrightsreligion.org/our-work/rel...
(Also, Rev. Kardon in the article was my college roommate and not at all surprised to see her doing this amazing work).
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Such important reporting by @jackjenkins.me. If you want a legal analysis on religious liberty and immigration, check out our report.
lawrightsreligion.org/our-work/rel...
(Also, Rev. Kardon in the article was my college roommate and not at all surprised to see her doing this amazing work).
lawrightsreligion.org/our-work/rel...
(Also, Rev. Kardon in the article was my college roommate and not at all surprised to see her doing this amazing work).
Accompaniment, as theologian Roberto Goizueta notes, is “not an abstraction, or a merely ‘spiritual’ reality.” It instead requires a “mutual bodily presence” from all participants who have agreed to work in this partnership.
A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois.
Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Accompaniment, as theologian Roberto Goizueta notes, is “not an abstraction, or a merely ‘spiritual’ reality.” It instead requires a “mutual bodily presence” from all participants who have agreed to work in this partnership.
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New: 2024-2025 PRRI Public Fellows Anita Huizar-Hernandez, @elprofebarba.bsky.social, and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social spoke to @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social about the oral history project they conducted to better understand shifts in Americans' views on immigration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71r...
Good Faith Weekly, 09/12/2025 - Political Unrest + Anita Huizar-Hernandez, Lloyd Barba & Sergio G...
YouTube video by Good Faith Media
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September 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New: 2024-2025 PRRI Public Fellows Anita Huizar-Hernandez, @elprofebarba.bsky.social, and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social spoke to @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social about the oral history project they conducted to better understand shifts in Americans' views on immigration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71r...
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Religious liberals have advocated for immigrant rights for decades. Sanctuary churches are an example.
I offer a brief history of the sensitive locations memo and argue that Trump is redrawing the boundaries of public religion in America.
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...
I offer a brief history of the sensitive locations memo and argue that Trump is redrawing the boundaries of public religion in America.
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...
Mass Deportation | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
On July 8, 2025, Alberto Rojas, the Bishop of San Bernardino, offered a dispensation to faithful in his diocese from the holy Catholic obligation of attending Mass. This dispensation extends to those ...
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July 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Religious liberals have advocated for immigrant rights for decades. Sanctuary churches are an example.
I offer a brief history of the sensitive locations memo and argue that Trump is redrawing the boundaries of public religion in America.
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...
I offer a brief history of the sensitive locations memo and argue that Trump is redrawing the boundaries of public religion in America.
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...
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Honored for the dedicated episode from @99pi.org about my book and open borders.
Give it a listen here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/633-...
Special thanks to producer Lasha Madan.
@haymarketbooks.org
Give it a listen here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/633-...
Special thanks to producer Lasha Madan.
@haymarketbooks.org
Open Borders - 99% Invisible
A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinem...
99percentinvisible.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Honored for the dedicated episode from @99pi.org about my book and open borders.
Give it a listen here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/633-...
Special thanks to producer Lasha Madan.
@haymarketbooks.org
Give it a listen here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/633-...
Special thanks to producer Lasha Madan.
@haymarketbooks.org
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Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right.
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
July 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right.
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
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Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access
Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access
As I told the Journal Sentinel, any time we’ve seen immigration officers conceal their identities it’s been accompanied by a further degradation of general public trust in law enforcement. This escalation does nothing but sow fear in our communities.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
Is it normal or legal for federal ICE officers to wear masks during operations?
Readers asked us if it's legal for ICE officers to wear masks that cover their faces during raids. Here's what we learned.
www.jsonline.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
As I told the Journal Sentinel, any time we’ve seen immigration officers conceal their identities it’s been accompanied by a further degradation of general public trust in law enforcement. This escalation does nothing but sow fear in our communities.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
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I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city
.@CBS8 in San Diego reports that due to Bishop Michael Pham’s presence in the courtroom, in effect, cases of migrants today were postponed.
June 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city
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The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis
Join @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, and Angélica Cházaro as they discuss how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism.
Co-sponsored by @detentionwatchnetwork.org
Join @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, and Angélica Cházaro as they discuss how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism.
Co-sponsored by @detentionwatchnetwork.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis
Join @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, and Angélica Cházaro as they discuss how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism.
Co-sponsored by @detentionwatchnetwork.org
Join @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, and Angélica Cházaro as they discuss how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism.
Co-sponsored by @detentionwatchnetwork.org
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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.
(Via Christopher Hale)
(Via Christopher Hale)
June 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.
(Via Christopher Hale)
(Via Christopher Hale)
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2/ @micarosenberg.bsky.social, Perla Trevizo, Gabriel Sandoval, Ronna Risquez, Adrian Gonzalez and I have been reporting on what the government did to these 238 men, beginning with this story today:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
www.propublica.org
May 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
2/ @micarosenberg.bsky.social, Perla Trevizo, Gabriel Sandoval, Ronna Risquez, Adrian Gonzalez and I have been reporting on what the government did to these 238 men, beginning with this story today:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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From our spring issue: @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social on the sanctuary movement.
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Future of Sanctuary - Dissent Magazine
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.
www.dissentmagazine.org
May 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
From our spring issue: @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social on the sanctuary movement.
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
When asked, I had to share my thoughts on @uwmadison.bsky.social granting an honorary doctorate to the architect of one of this country's most restrictive pieces of immigration legislation. Really a head-scratching move.
Jim Sensenbrenner, who introduced the Patriot Act in 2001 and a controversial immigration reform bill in 2005, was honored Friday with an honorary doctorate from the Universtiy of Wisconsin, sparking backlash from immigrant rights advocates. Omar Waheed reports:
Honorory doctorate for Sensenbrenner, legislator behind anti-immigrant legislation, sparks backlash
Shocked, disappointed, troubled, concerned, confused — all reactions to news of longtime Wisconsin politician Jim Sensenbrenner being rewarded with an honorary degree from the University of…
buff.ly
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When asked, I had to share my thoughts on @uwmadison.bsky.social granting an honorary doctorate to the architect of one of this country's most restrictive pieces of immigration legislation. Really a head-scratching move.
Always happy to jump on @wuwmradio.bsky.social to discuss Wisconsin's immigration history, especially when we get to focus on the tradition of sanctuary in our state. Take a listen!
www.wuwm.com/government-p...
www.wuwm.com/government-p...
Making Wisconsin: How sanctuary movements have succeeded and failed
WUWM's Making Wisconsin series dives into the history of sanctuary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and our country with Sergio González, Marquette University assistant professor of history and author.
www.wuwm.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Always happy to jump on @wuwmradio.bsky.social to discuss Wisconsin's immigration history, especially when we get to focus on the tradition of sanctuary in our state. Take a listen!
www.wuwm.com/government-p...
www.wuwm.com/government-p...
You *have* to check out @elprofebarba.bsky.social's latest in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Blazing new paths in the study of sanctuary movements!
My latest in JAAR. This time on the “usable sacred histories” of the Sanctuary Movement.
Shoutout to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
and the American Religion workshops at Stanford and Princeton led by @kginlum.bsky.social and Nicole Myers Turner, respectively.
academic.oup.com/jaar/advance...
Shoutout to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
and the American Religion workshops at Stanford and Princeton led by @kginlum.bsky.social and Nicole Myers Turner, respectively.
academic.oup.com/jaar/advance...
“An Historic and Hallowed Principle in Religious Life:” The Usable Sacred Histories of the 1980s Sanctuary Movement
ABSTRACT. This article draws on numerous primary sources to tease out the “usable sacred histories” that Sanctuary Movement congregations of the 1980s invo
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May 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
You *have* to check out @elprofebarba.bsky.social's latest in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Blazing new paths in the study of sanctuary movements!
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Here's @detentionwatchnetwork.org and local groups statement on ICE's arrest of Mayor Baraka
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
May 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Here's @detentionwatchnetwork.org and local groups statement on ICE's arrest of Mayor Baraka
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
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Collabs w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social are the best! Here’s another one and special thnx to @dissentmag.bsky.social !
So proud of this co-written piece, put together with my compa @elprofebarba.bsky.social, in the latest edition of @dissentmag.bsky.social. We review the history of the sanctuary movement and what it means for faith-based migrant justice movements today.
May 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Collabs w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social are the best! Here’s another one and special thnx to @dissentmag.bsky.social !
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So proud of this co-written piece, put together with my compa @elprofebarba.bsky.social, in the latest edition of @dissentmag.bsky.social. We review the history of the sanctuary movement and what it means for faith-based migrant justice movements today.
May 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So proud of this co-written piece, put together with my compa @elprofebarba.bsky.social, in the latest edition of @dissentmag.bsky.social. We review the history of the sanctuary movement and what it means for faith-based migrant justice movements today.
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Check out this new important piece on the history of sanctuary cities by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social:
time.com/7264323/sanc...
time.com/7264323/sanc...
Sanctuary Cities Are Not New
Since the 1980s, communities have challenged deportations by crafting sanctuary city policies.
time.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Check out this new important piece on the history of sanctuary cities by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social:
time.com/7264323/sanc...
time.com/7264323/sanc...