Asylum Archives

UK Catholic group says migrants crossing Channel because ‘lives under threat’

Aug 12, 2020

Britain’s leading Catholic refugee agency says Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s declaration he wanted to “send away” asylum seekers might “pre-judge people’s asylum claims without considering them individually.”

By Charles Collins

German abbess faces possible landmark trial on church asylum

Jul 23, 2020

A Benedictine abbess who granted refuge to female asylum-seekers faces trial for refusing to pay a fine.

By Catholic News Service

Catholic organizations rush to oppose proposed asylum changes

Jul 17, 2020

Catholic organizations and others who fear that proposed changes by the Trump administration will all but eliminate the asylum system rushed to meet a July 15 deadline to make their voices heard.

By Rhina Guidos

Judge strikes down Trump administration’s ‘third-country asylum rule’

Jul 2, 2020

A federal judge ruled late June 30 the Trump administration unlawfully implemented its 2019 policy to turn away asylum-seekers if they don’t first seek protection in countries along their way to the United States.

By Catholic News Service

Catholic refugee agency: Immigrant detention in UK promotes ‘culture of death’

Jun 28, 2020

Britain’s immigration detention system fosters a “culture of death” and the practice should be ended, according the country’s leading Catholic refugee agency.

By Charles Collins

Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says

Jun 27, 2020

After visiting a group of pregnant migrant women on the Mexico side of the border, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, issued strong words June 25 about the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program and other restrictive immigration measures, saying that turning away those seeking asylum in the U.S. amounts to sending them to their death.

By Rhina Guidos