U.S.-Mexico border Archives

CLINIC director: Government violates law by not letting in asylum seekers

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

The executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, told U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 13 that the government is violating international and U.S. law when it denies asylum-seekers at the border entry into the U.S.

Immigration advocates take part in teach-in event at U.S.-Mexico border

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

Catholic Latino organizers, labor leaders, scholars and activists took part in a social justice event that was a combination teach-in and demand for action Oct. 11-13 in El Paso.

After faith leaders’ border visit, the resolve to help migrants grows

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 27, 2019

A group of U.S. Catholic bishops, along with a Vatican representative and other priests, celebrated Mass Sept. 26 next to a field of chili peppers with farmworkers and their families and other immigrants.

As migrants face a closing door to the U.S., bishops accompany them

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Sep 26, 2019

In anticipation of the 2019 World Day for Migrants and Refugees, a group of bishops, women religious, lay ministers and others interested in the plight of migrants spent the days prior to the Sept. 29 observance listening to tales of hope, dashed dreams, resilience and uncertainty that are in abundance among migrants in this border region.

A day of visiting the unwelcome, and a call to give them hope

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Sep 25, 2019

A group of U.S. bishops visited Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, to get a firsthand look at the immigration crisis.

El Paso Diocese uses new fund to help migrants near border

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

During the summer of 2019, the bishop of El Paso, Texas, decided his diocese would open a fund to help a growing number of immigrants piling into shelters on the other side of the U.S. border in the sister city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.