Asylum seekers Archives

CLINIC director: Government violates law by not letting in asylum seekers

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 17, 2019

The executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, told U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 13 that the government is violating international and U.S. law when it denies asylum-seekers at the border entry into the U.S.

Discovery of 39 dead migrants in England shows need for asylum reform, JRS says

Church in UK and Ireland
Oct 24, 2019

A gruesome discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container on a truck in Essex on Wednesday morning “highlights the urgent need for more safe and legal routes to migrate and to seek asylum,” says the director of the Jesuit Refugee Service UK.

Some immigration judges say they rule a certain way to avoid firing

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 1, 2019

Some immigration judges hearing cases at the U.S.-Mexico border have confided to their fellow jurists they have issued decisions on an immigrant’s ability to enter or stay in the United States based on whether the decision would get them fired.

Trump condemns religious persecution amid refugee squeeze

Associated Press, Church in the US
Sep 27, 2019

President Donald Trump said at the United Nations this week that “protecting religious freedom is one of my highest priorities.” But his promise rings hollow to advocates for persecuted religious minorities seeking refuge in the United States.

Family flees unrest in Nicaragua, finds home in Indiana

Associated Press, Church in the Americas
Sep 22, 2019

It wasn’t easy for Julio Araúz and Brenda Molina to leave behind the life they had created in Nicaragua. But for the family, staying in their home country was no longer an option.