Wall Archives

Catholic bishops, groups oppose Trump’s call for national emergency

Feb 16, 2019

Catholic bishops near the U.S.-Mexico border, joined by other U.S. prelates, voiced opposition immediately after President Donald Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration of a national emergency so he can order construction of a barrier along parts of the border between the two countries.

By Rhina Guidos

Judge allows survey of church property for border wall construction

Feb 8, 2019

A judge in Texas ruled Feb. 6 that the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, must allow federal officials to survey some of its property for possible construction of a border wall on it.

By Rhina Guidos

Georgetown Law helps Texas diocese fight border wall

Jan 30, 2019

In a fight to prevent a section of the border wall from being built on diocesan land, a Texas diocese is being assisted by the Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), in Washington, DC.

By Christine Rousselle

Catholic groups and others rail against Trump border ‘crisis’ speech

Jan 10, 2019

No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his Jan. 8 nine-minute speech, his first such event televised in prime time from the Oval Office, about what he called a “crisis” at the border, than Catholic groups and others began tearing apart his arguments.

By Rhina Guidos

San Diego bishop calls border wall prototypes ‘grotesque’

Mar 18, 2018

San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy condemned the Trump administration’s border wall effort this week, calling it “ineffective” and “grotesque” as the president visited the region to tour prototypes.

By Jack Jenkins

Security expert says wall would be costly symbol of exclusion, bigotry

Jan 22, 2018

A scholar at a Washington think tank says the Trump administration doesn’t understand the financial, social, environmental and other implications of building a bigger border wall with Mexico and may push the country into paying for a costly, ineffective structure that would only serve to symbolize the sentiments of those in the U.S. who embrace bigotry.

By Rhina Guidos