deportations Archives

Bishop warns of ‘dumbed-down Gospel’ behind anti-immigrant stance
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 12, 2017
In an effort to deport more people than President Obama did, the Trump administration is focusing on immigrants who follow the rules and show up to their meeting with ICE to tell them their whereabouts. Criminals and people who pose a danger to society are too difficult to find so they are a lower priority.
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Migrant advocates show support for border bishop’s call for solidarity
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 20, 2017
El Paso’s Bishop Mark J. Seitz says the current system of deportations is one that “forces people to their deaths,” and the Catholic community needs to respond, particularly by accompanying people in their struggles.
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Avoiding deportation: Shifting policies leave many on tenterhooks
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 3, 2017
Complicating matters for immigrants apprehended by ICE is that the agency moves detainees rapidly from location to location, making it even tougher for them to obtain counsel and access to federal or immigration courts, according to the ACLU suit.
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New Mexico’s Bishops: Trump immigration draft act of ‘war’

After the Associated Press obtained a draft memo outlining a Trump administration proposal under consideration to mobilize National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, New Mexico’s Catholic bishops called the idea “a declaration of some form of war.” The White House has denied the memo.

Detentions, raids raise questions as Trump announces crackdown

Responding to the fears, Spanish-language television network Telemundo hosted a prime-time show Feb. 12: “Immigration, Trump and Hispanics.” The show featured activists, lawyers, children of deported parents and relatives, along with advice about what to do if government officials come knocking.

Arizona mother deported from U.S. taken in by shelter just across border

Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee, warned that Trump’s promised escalation in immigrant detention and deportation would “tear families apart and spark fear and panic in communities.”