deportations Archives

In court briefs, Catholic leaders urge Supreme Court to keep DACA in place

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

Catholic leaders joined more than 35 other groups that have filed friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Supreme Court to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, known as DACA.

Immigrant domestic abuse victims fear reporting abuse

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 12, 2019

Amid changing immigration laws and deportation threats, advocates and lawyers have seen a decrease in immigrants who are victims of domestic violence seeking help and reporting abuse to law enforcement.

Priests hear from Honduran living in sanctuary church in St. Louis

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 30, 2019

Nearly five dozen priests attending the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests annual assembly spent 90 minutes with a Honduran who sought protection from deportation in a St. Louis-area church.

As raid threats stoke fears, church leaders try to comfort immigrants

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 25, 2019

The president’s threats came and went in tweets, but priests, women and men religious, church-affiliated organizations and even some bishops from around the country were left trying to dampen the fear they sparked among immigrant communities of faith.

Immigration activist takes sanctuary in Denver church

Associated Press, Church in the US
Mar 16, 2019

An immigration activist who was granted a temporary stay from deportation after seeking sanctuary inside Denver churches for months has once again taken up shelter inside a house of faith.

After raid, Ohio bishop says immigration system contributes to suffering

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 7, 2018

The bishop of Cleveland said a recent immigration raid at an Ohio gardening and landscape company “makes clear that our current immigration system contributes to the human suffering of migrants and the separation of families.”