Asylum seekers Archives

Catholic refugee agency concerned over death of detainee in UK facility
- Church in UK and Ireland
- Sep 17, 2019
Britain’s leading Catholic refugee agency is concerned after the death of a Nigerian man at an immigrant detention center last week.
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Court allows Trump administration to bar asylum-seekers for now
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Sep 13, 2019
The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order late Sept. 11 that will temporarily allow the Trump administration to enforce its new rule preventing many Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States, while the legal battle over this issue continues to work its way through the courts.
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Religious leaders urge U.S. to keep refugee resettlement program
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Aug 26, 2019
Several women’s religious orders, individual women religious and Catholic organizations such as Pax Christi and Jesuit Refugee Service were among more than 500 religious leaders and groups who signed an Aug. 23 letter to President Donald Trump urging his administration not to go through with plans to possibly end the country’s refugee resettlement program.
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Faith leaders ask for end to Trump administration rule for asylum-seekers

Calling it “a backdoor asylum ban,” more than 250 faith leaders and organizations called for an end to the Trump administration’s policy to turn away asylum-seekers if they don’t first seek protection in countries along their way to the United States.

Catholic Charities: ‘Horrible deja vu’ in continued family separation

New York’s Catholic Charities Community Services has joined in a filing from the American Civil Liberties Union that says more than 900 children were taken from parents in the year after a judge last year issued an injunction ordering the Trump administration to stop separating most parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border.