Bishop Joe S. Vasquez Archives

Admitting fewer refugees ‘runs counter’ to U.S. values, say USCCB leaders

A proposal to reduce the number of refugee admissions to the United States to fewer than 30,000 “would be wholly counter to our values as a nation of immigrants,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chair of the bishops’ Committee on Migration.

Migrant children will suffer most under new detention rule, says bishop

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee said Aug. 23 he sees “heartbreaking consequences for immigrant children” in a final rule issued by the Trump administration that allows the federal government to hold immigrant children in family detention indefinitely.

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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Historic 124-year-old Central Texas church burns to ground
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Jul 30, 2019
A historic rural Catholic church that had served its surrounding Central Texas farming community for more than a century has burned to the ground.
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Immigration policy ‘will have terrible human consequences,’ bishop says
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Jul 26, 2019
An immigration policy that seeks to speed up the deportation process has the potential to trample on a person’s legal rights, stoke fears among immigrant communities and lead to more widespread family separation, said a U.S. Catholic bishop who deals with national immigration issues.
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