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- Nov 23, 2020
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At Jesuit agency event, Biden announces he will dramatically raise refugee cap
- Nov 14, 2020
Weeks after the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was dropping to a historic low the cap on the maximum number of displaced people the U.S. decides to resettle in a federal fiscal year, President-elect Joe Biden said Nov. 12 he would be heading in a dramatically different direction.
Unless UK changes asylum policy, Channel deaths to happen ‘again and again’
- Oct 30, 2020
With children dying in the English Channel, the UK’s leading Catholic refugee agency says the government is ramping up a policy “very likely to increase the risk of this happening again and again.”
UK bishop calls for ‘meeting of minds’ on asylum after English Channel deaths
- Oct 28, 2020
A “shifting of mindset” is needed for those making the UK’s immigration rules, according to the English bishops’ point man for migration.
JRS reports successful fundraising campaign for refugee education
- Oct 24, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of refugees and forcibly displaced people received support, education and training last year through Jesuit Refugee Service’s on-the-ground initiatives and programs, said its international director.
Supreme Court to hear cases emerging from Trump’s immigration policies
- Oct 20, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear cases stemming from President Donald Trump’s immigration policies related to financing border wall construction and the requirement that asylum-seekers remain in Mexico until their claims are processed.
Judge blocks deportation of Indonesian immigrant detained on church grounds
- Oct 3, 2020
A federal judge on Friday blocked the deportation of an Indonesian immigrant who was detained last month on the grounds of a Maryland church, a space considered a “sensitive location” in which immigration authorities generally avoid enforcement actions.
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