immigration laws

Christians outnumber Muslim refugees to U.S. in last 15 years
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- October 12, 2017
In the last 15 years, almost 425,000 Christian refugees crossed U.S. borders, making up 46 percent of refugee arrivals. In comparison, 33 percent, or slightly more than 302,000 of admitted refugees were Muslim. Almost 170,000 refugees of other religions entered at the same time, including about 55,000 Hindus and about 50,000 Buddhists.
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Arizona, New Mexico bishops ask Trump to keep DACA
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- September 3, 2017
Catholic bishops around the country are writing to the Trump administration in an effort to convince the president to continue with DACA until comprehensive immigration reform can be achieved. The bishops of Arizona and New Mexico as well as Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles have been particularly vocal.
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Chaldeans in U.S.: Why aren’t more Christians speaking out against deportations to Iraq?
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- June 18, 2017
“On a practical level, this is mind-boggling,” said Nina Shea, an international human-rights lawyer who runs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Washington-based Hudson Institute. She can’t think of a safe destination for the Chaldeans in Iraq. “The director of Homeland Security — does he know that there has been a genocide declared there by the United States? Had anyone told him? Does ICE know this?”
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DiNardo: Local officers shouldn’t be required to enforce immigration laws
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- June 15, 2017
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in the opening address of a conference that law enforcement should not be burdened with enforcing federal immigration law, because it takes away “from their efforts to ensure public safety.”
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