immigration laws Archives

DACA’s uncertainty prompts Wisconsin couple’s decision to move to Canada

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 17, 2019

As an immigration counselor for Catholic Charities of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Ana Rodriguez said one of her greatest joys was helping immigrants on their way to permanent residency and U.S. citizenship.

Gomez: Nation has ‘moral obligation’ to keep promise to DACA recipients

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

The “failures” of the nation’s leaders in Washington to make “comprehensive reforms to immigration policy “cut across party lines,” said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles.

Confusion arises over TPS for Salvadorans

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Nov 1, 2019

Salvadorans with a special immigration status experienced whiplash in late October when the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, in a video with the Salvadoran president Oct. 28, announced the extension of the program, only to be corrected hours later by the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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.

Catholic Charities: ‘Horrible deja vu’ in continued family separation

Associated Press, Church in the US
Aug 1, 2019

New York’s Catholic Charities Community Services has joined in a filing from the American Civil Liberties Union that says more than 900 children were taken from parents in the year after a judge last year issued an injunction ordering the Trump administration to stop separating most parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Vigil attendees pray for immigrants, demand conditions change at border

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

About 250 people attended a candlelight vigil at the Louisville cathedral to protest the treatment of migrants and asylum-seekers at the southern U.S. border.