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  • Birth on a riverbank: Woman’s ordeal shows risks at border

    Birth on a riverbank: Woman’s ordeal shows risks at border

    • Dec 16, 2020

    Merín, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras. gave birth to her daughter next to the Rio Grande, attended to by two Border Patrol agents, showing how lives routinely end up at risk at the U.S.-Mexico border.

    By Nomaan Merchant
  • Carmelite priest, Mercy sister to be honored for social justice work

    Carmelite priest, Mercy sister to be honored for social justice work

    • Nov 12, 2020

    Carmelite Father Peter Hinde and Mercy Sister Betty Campbell often share an anecdote when receiving foreign visitors at Casa Tabor, the home in a modest Ciudad Juarez neighborhood near the U.S. border where they’ve lived, worked and welcomed visitors for 25 years.

    By David Agren
  • Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says

    Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says

    • Jun 27, 2020

    After visiting a group of pregnant migrant women on the Mexico side of the border, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, issued strong words June 25 about the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program and other restrictive immigration measures, saying that turning away those seeking asylum in the U.S. amounts to sending them to their death.

    By Rhina Guidos
  • Pandemic, border crackdown hamper Catholics’ aid to migrants

    Pandemic, border crackdown hamper Catholics’ aid to migrants

    • Apr 6, 2020

    For years, Catholic-led, U.S.-based nonprofits have been at the forefront of efforts to support migrants and asylum seekers along the Mexican border. Tough new border policies, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, have drastically changed their work, much of which now takes place in Mexico.

    By David Crary
  • Churches work to alleviate suffering of people who ‘Remain in Mexico’

    Churches work to alleviate suffering of people who ‘Remain in Mexico’

    • Mar 4, 2020

    The “Remain in Mexico” program has forced more than 60,000 asylum-seekers to wait on the Mexican side of the border as their claims are heard in U.S. courts. It has proved controversial as critics contend it destroyed the traditional asylum system.

    By David Agren
  • Supreme Court rules Border Patrol agent can’t be sued for shooting teen

    Supreme Court rules Border Patrol agent can’t be sued for shooting teen

    • Feb 27, 2020

    In a 5-4 vote Feb. 25, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a U.S. Border Patrol agent could not be sued for the 2010 shooting death of a Mexican teenager on the Mexican side of the border.

    By Carol Zimmermann
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