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b'A bill proposing to halve legal immigration and preference English speakers sparked outrage this week\\u2014nothing new for an issue that has long been a hot topic in the United States. (The current president made building a wall a key campaign promise.) As our country continues to debate immigration, millions of relative newcomers continue to build their lives here. Here\\u2019s how our recent story, \\u201cImmigrants Are Reshaping American Missions\\u201d sees it: "To some experts, these immigrant-led efforts look like the future of missions. They are informal and highly relational, operating outside legacy missions structures. They are, to a degree, an extreme version of mainstream evangelical mission projects." While these efforts are altering how we understand missions in this country, they\\u2019re also challenging perceptions that natives have about immigrants. \\u201cThere\\u2019s a prevalent narrative in the United States that the immigrant community is perpetually in need of help or legislative protection. There\\u2019s certainly truth to that but there\\u2019s another part of the story,\\u201d said Andy Olsen, the author of the story and CT\\u2019s print managing editor. \\u201cImmigrant Christians in many of these communities are doing some amazing things, and there is robust ministry happening,\\u201d he said. \\u201cIn some ways, if there\\u2019s a case to be made for supporting these communities, it might not be because we need to protect them as victims. It might be because God is doing some pretty transformative things through them and as the church this may be something that we should be paying attention to.\\u201d Olsen joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to explain the conditions that have made this transformation possible, how the United States\\u2019 political decisions about immigration affect ministry, and what legacy missions organizations can learn from these efforts.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'