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by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Church in the US, immigration reform, lead, News, Remain in Mexico, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
Catholic immigration leaders celebrated a Supreme Court ruling that allows the Biden administration to end a controversial Trump-era border policy, but they have little optimism that the ruling will prompt any steps towards true immigration reform.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, immigrants and refugees, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, US bishops, USCCB | 0 |
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has voiced support for the Biden administration’s “Uniting for Ukraine” initiative to welcome Ukrainian refugees coming to the United States.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Church in the US, CLINIC, COVID-19 pandemic, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lead, News | 0 |
Bishop Mark Seitz considers the process temporary religious worker visa recipients endure to maintain lawful status a “race against time” with federal processing backlogs making it difficult to satisfy different permissions and expiration dates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 5, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Biden Administration, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, Remain in Mexico | 0 |
Biden administration officials announced Jan. 3 additional legal help for migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who are being forced to stay in Mexico under a Trump-era policy that has been difficult to revoke.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, immigrants and refugees, News, USCCB | 0 |
Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington urged people to take up Pope Francis’s invitation to “move from indifference to solidarity” to be better understand the plight of migrant people and refugees around the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 23, 2021 | Asylum seekers, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, Haiti, immigrants and refugees, News, USCCB | 0 |
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee and the head of Catholic Charities USA issued a joint statement Sept. 22 urging humane treatment of Haitians and other migrants as their numbers grow in southern Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 16, 2021 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Church in the US, Congress, immigration reform, lead, News, USCCB | 0 |
The U.S. Bishops Conference is calling on Congress to follow-through on immigration reform after the House Judiciary Committee approved language this week that would create a pathway to citizenship in the forthcoming budget reconciliation bill.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2021 | Afghanistan, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Bishop David J. Malloy, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Church in the US, lead, News, President Joe Biden, USCCB | 0 |
The U.S. Bishops Conference on Aug. 17 emphasized the need for the U.S. government to work quickly to achieve its goal of relocating 30,000 special immigrant visa applicants from Afghanistan because it’s a “monumental task that hangs in the balance.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, News, USCCB | 0 |
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration June 24 hailed a Supreme Court decision dismissing a lawsuit challenging a Trump-era immigration policy that kept asylum-seekers in Mexico, while he urged the end of another policy that keeps migrants out of the U.S.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2021 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Central America, Church in the Americas, Church in the US, Kamala Harris, lead, Migration, News, President Joe Biden, USCCB | 0 |
A final readout of the emergency immigration summit earlier this month attended by church leaders from the U.S., Mexico and Central America includes a plan of action for welcoming, advocacy and addressing root causes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2021 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, dreamers, immigrants and refugees, News, Temporary Protected Status, TPS, USCCB | 0 |
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee marked the ninth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program June 15 by urging Congress to act on creating a pathway to citizenship for its beneficiaries.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Census, Church in the US, illegal immigration, immigrants and refugees, News, Trump administration, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
In oral arguments Nov. 30, the Supreme Court weighed in on President Donald Trump’s order to exclude immigrants living in the country illegally from the 2020 census for purposes of redrawing congressional districts.
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