Committee on Migration Archives

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

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 27, 2019

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.

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.

Trump administration continues push for citizenship question

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 5, 2019

Although the Justice Department announced July 2 it would no longer argue to have the citizenship question added to the 2020 census, the Trump administration continues to look at all possible options to get the question included.

USCCB leaders decry policies they say led to child deaths at border

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 2, 2019

Leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in an op-ed cast blame on government policies for recent child deaths near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Supreme Court stops citizenship question in census, for now

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 28, 2019

The Supreme Court, for now, blocked the Trump administration’s added citizenship question to the 2020 census, sending the case back to a lower court.

Border bishops address different kind of crisis involving children

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 15, 2019

While the sex abuse crisis consumed the June meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, prelates who work on the border, such as Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, have been facing a different crisis also involving children.