travel ban

Catholic, Lutheran leaders lament refugee entry cap being reached
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 17, 2017
The cap on refugees of 50,000 that the Trump administration set has been reached, though with a new order by a federal judge in place more may arrive. This low number has been challenged by Catholic and Lutheran leaders who work to resettle immigrants and refugees and are deeply troubled by the administration’s efforts to ban people.
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As the partial travel ban nears, agencies worry about refugees in limbo
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 5, 2017
The Supreme Court announced June 26 it would temporarily allow the Trump administration’s plan to ban refugees from six majority-Muslim countries, unless those refugees had “bona fide” relationships with parties in the United States, meaning certain family members, employees or universities. In a statement, Jesuit Refugee Service USA said the administration, with its actions, was preventing the reunification of some families.
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Half sib? Welcome. Fiance? Not so fast. New travel ban rules decried as illogical
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- July 1, 2017
Immigration advocates say rules issued by the Trump Administration on enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling on the so-called “travel ban” from 6 majority-Muslim countries will create the same suffering that families endured before federal judges originally issued injunctions against the ban.
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Catholic leaders decry SCOTUS upholding parts of Trump travel ban
- Church in the US
- June 27, 2017
On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling in a religious freedom case described by a leading bishop as a “landmark victory,” it also upheld parts of the Trump administration’s travel ban on people from six majority-Muslim states, a decision another U.S. bishop warned “will have human consequences.”
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9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds injunction on Trump’s travel ban
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- June 14, 2017
Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, said in a statement that the decision of the 9th Circuit Court to uphold an injunction against President Donald Trump’s travel ban “will allow us to continue welcoming and serving refugees fleeing persecution.” The bishop, who serves as the chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, said the bishops “believe it is possible to simultaneously provide for the security of our country and have a humane refugee policy that upholds our national heritage and moral responsibility.”
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