US-Mexico border Archives

Agencies serving migrants ‘strained’ but doing OK, says USCCB official

Jun 2, 2019

Asked about the immigration situation, a national church expert summed it up in two words: “Pretty rough. Catholic charities and diocesan services are overwhelmed.”

By Jim Davis

Pope calls US border wall a sign of ‘fear,’ says he wants to visit Iraq

Jan 23, 2019

Aboard the papal plane on his way to Panama, Pope Francis called the Trump border wall a product of “fear,” said he wants to go to Iraq and confirmed that he’s visiting Japan later this year.

By Inés San Martín

Catholic groups ask for humane treatment of migrants heading for border

Oct 27, 2018

As a group from Central America heads to the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the Trump administration is said to be getting ready to send troops to meet them, and Catholic groups are asking that the migrants be treated humanely.

By Rhina Guidos

To understand border issues, Americans immerse themselves for a week

Nov 20, 2017

EL PASO, Texas — Eight U.S. citizens caught glimpses of hope and inequity during a week spent along the U.S.-Mexico border. “You can learn things in books, but I’m one of those people who learn things by seeing them firsthand,” Mercy Sister Eileen Trainor, one of the participants from New

By Melissa Vida

More migrants choose to stay in Mexico, Catholic shelter operators say

Feb 7, 2017

A growing number of migrants escaping the dangerous gangs in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala choose to seek refugee status in Mexico rather than try and cross the border to the United States, according to Catholic run migrant shelters.

By Catholic News Service

Catholic theologian says Trump border wall defies Church values

Feb 4, 2017

The Rev. Daniel G. Groody, an associate professor of theology at Notre Dame University in Indiana, said the wall would lead to a loss of life as migrants are forced to find other ways to escape poverty across the border.

By Josephine McKenna