Asylum seekers

Detroit immigrant family about to be deported can stay
- Dec 12, 2020
A Detroit immigrant family with a disabled girl that was days away from being deported will be allowed to remain in the United States for one more year, federal officials said.

By Associated Press
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.

By Rhina Guidos
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.”

By Charles Collins

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.

By Charles Collins

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.

By Carol Glatz
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.

By Catholic News Service
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.

By Regina Garcia Cano
‘Manufactured homelessness’ shouldn’t further UK immigration aims, JRS says
- Sep 24, 2020
A recent decision by the UK government to evict people seeking asylum from temporary accommodations is “deeply troubling,” especially during an upsurge of COVID-19 cases, according to the Jesuit Refugee Service UK.

By Charles Collins