How do we tell stories about immigrants that are new and  that still touch us? We tell them as humanely as possible. We tell them so that they reach deep down to values that cement our eyes and souls to what we are reading and hearing.

This is THE story for the news media today that speaks to today’s immigrants and it has always been the story.

I was thinking about this when I paused and read over the beginning to a wonderful piece by Margaret Ramirez in today’s Chicago Tribune about two elderly nuns and their dedication to immigrants facing deportation here in the Chicago area.

As I read on, I was struck by the humanity, by the massing of information about changes in the way that immigrant detainees are being treated and the story’s moving journey in words and images through the meaning of these two nuns.

It is a wonderful example of how to tell a story that matters  again and again and this is what the ethnic news media does well when it works at it.

Here is a link to the story:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-sisters-immigration-aug09,0,6741430.story