Asylum seekers Archives

Border center offers waystation of hope for desperate families

Apr 26, 2021

Wednesday morning, a pregnant mother and her young daughter stood in line for fresh clothes from the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley Humanitarian Respite Center. As her daughter clenched her right hand, the mother held a large yellow envelope with their travel plans to New Orleans in her left.

By John Lavenburg

UK’s asylum system ‘unjust and dehumanizing,’ according to new JRS report

Apr 20, 2021

Refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom say they are “not seen, heard, or recognized,” according to a new report published by the Jesuit Refugee Service.

By Charles Collins

Group asks Biden administration to step up reunification of border families

Apr 9, 2021

An interfaith collection of religious activists is asking the Biden administration to step up the pace of family reunification to remedy the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated an estimated 5,500 immigrant children from their families by invoking criminal proceedings against their parents.

By Mark Pattison

Catholic refugee agency: New UK asylum rules ‘cruel and dishonest’

Mar 25, 2021

New changes to the United Kingdom’s asylum system announced on Wednesday are “cruel and dishonest,” according to the country’s Catholic refugee agency.

By Charles Collins

Catholic Relief Services praise end of Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’

Feb 20, 2021

Catholic Relief Services has praised President Joe Biden’s decision to rescind Donald Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban,” which forbid the immigration of people from 13 Muslim-majority countries.

By Crux Staff

Catholic agencies prepare for influx of migrants at Texas-Mexico border

Feb 12, 2021

Two Catholic Charities organizations in southern Texas are prepared to provide humanitarian relief to a combined 400 migrants a day, with the expectation that U.S. Customs and Border Protection will release more migrants as soon as next week.

By John Lavenburg

Catholic bishops call on Biden to change reality at Mexican border

Jan 29, 2021

When Bishop Mark Seitz arrived to El Paso in 2013 he realized that most people don’t understand life on the United States-Mexico Border. Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Seitz acknowledges that he didn’t either.

By John Lavenburg