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by bcadmin | Nov 5, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, immigrants and refugees, Jesuit Refugee Service, JRS, lead, News, United Kingdom | 0 |
A leading refugee organization has called the dumping of asylum seekers outside a bus station in London in the dead of night was the “culmination of so much cruelty” resulting from UK government’s “hostile environment” policy towards immigrants.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Border, DHS, diocese of El Paso, HOPE Border Institute, News, Texas, U.S. & World News, U.S. Border Patrol, Venezuela | 0 |
It’s hard to tell what exactly happened in a skirmish between U.S. Border Patrol agents and a group carrying a giant Venezuelan flag near the U.S.-Mexico border Oct. 31.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 29, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Canada, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, migrants and refugees, News, toronto | 0 |
At the front door of the FCJ Refugee Centre in Toronto, staffers are greeting an average of 60 people a day looking for help.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2022 | Archdiocese of New York, Asylum seekers, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News | 0 |
The Catholic Church’s perspective on the needs of migrant families arriving in New York City on buses from Texas is to see them “with the eyes of Jesus,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan told reporters at a news briefing Aug. 16.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Biden Administration, Catholic Charities of New York, Church in the US, Immigration, lead, News | 0 |
Catholic Charities of New York executive director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan has expressed concern that migrants are arriving at the organization with documentation listing the organization’s offices as their permanent residence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Alejandro Mayorkas, Asylum seekers, Biden, DHS, Featured, News, Remain in Mexico, Trump, U.S. & World News, U.S. Department of Homeland Security | 0 |
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Aug. 8 that it was set to end, in “a quick, and orderly, manner,” a Trump-era policy that keeps asylum-seekers out of the country while they wait for immigration courts to hear their cases.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Biden, Featured, News, Remain in Mexico, Supreme Court, Trump, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Catholic leaders praised the Supreme Court’s June 30 decision that gave the Biden administration the go-ahead to rescind a Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy requiring asylum-seekers at the southwest U.S. border to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 16, 2022 | Asylum, Asylum seekers, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, Jesuit Refugee Service, migrants and refugees, News, United Kingdom | 0 |
A Catholic group working with Britain’s illegal immigrants said a court ruling blocking their deportation to Rwanda was a “small victory.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 14, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Church of England, Great Britain, immigrants and refugees, lead, News, Rwanda, United Kingdom | 0 |
On the same day the UK planned to start deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, the bishops of England and Wales reiterated its belief that the policy is “shameful.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Biden, CDC, COVID-19 pandemic, Faith-based groups, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Migrants, News, Title 42, Trump, U.S. & World News, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
The much-anticipated May 23 deadline on Title 42 came and went at the U.S.-Mexico border without any changes allowing migrants in, including asylum-seekers, after a federal judge blocked the government from lifting the health measure instituted during the pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | Asylum, Asylum seekers, Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Boris Johnson, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, immigrants and refugees, News, Rwanda, UK government | 0 |
The UK government is unfairly punishing English Channel migrants for the crimes of human traffickers by sending the migrants to Rwanda to have asylum applications processed, said the English and Welsh bishops.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2022 | Asylum, Asylum seekers, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Haiti, immigrants and refugees, Mexico, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
A Mexican border diocese has issued an urgent appeal for assistance as hundreds of Haitian migrants arrive in the oft-violent city of Nuevo Laredo, hoping to apply for asylum in the United States.
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