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by bcadmin | Nov 7, 2022 | Bishop Mark J. Seitz, diocese of El Paso, El Paso, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
From an altar set on a platform just above the waters that straddle the U.S. and Mexico, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, celebrated a Mass Nov. 5 to remember migrants who’ve died trying to cross the waters below or along the border in 2022.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mark Seitz, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, HOPE Border Institute, Immigration, lead, Mexico, News, Title 42, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
A faith-based organization launched a medical clinic across the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Juárez over the weekend to provide medical support to migrants in need.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 25, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the US, Immigration, Legislation, News, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
The 19th Annual Immigration & Policy Conference unraveled numbers and unveiled trends in the movement of people across continents.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Archbishop Hebda, Dignity Not Detention, Featured, immigration policy, Local News, Mercy, News, U.S.-Mexico border, Unlocking the Gate in Our Hearts, Whipple Federal Building, World Day of Migrants and Refugees | 0 |
Standing alongside a banner reading “Dignity Not Detention” Aug. 9, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said that despite the world’s moral complexities, “any time that there is a policy or law that has such a detrimental effect upon families, that it’s wrong.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Biden, CBP, Harris, News, Remain in Mexico, U.S. & World News, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S.-Mexico border, U.S.-Mexico border expulsions | 0 |
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is set to break a record for border captures when the fiscal year ends at the end of September, as the total number of apprehensions inched closer to the 2 million mark at the end of July.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, Remain in Mexico, Title 42, U.S.-Mexico border | 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 | Aug 2, 2022 | Biden Administration, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration reform, News, President Donald Trump, U.S.-Mexico border, Wall | 0 |
Some border residents and organizations are speaking out against the Biden administration after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed plans to fill in gaps of a border wall to keep migrants out near Yuma, Arizona.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 30, 2022 | Church in the US, Immigration, News, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
A group from the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, recently traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to better understand how to help the migrants arriving in their diocese.
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 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, immigrants and refugees, Mexico, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
Pastor-run migrant shelters in Mexico have partnered with educators to help educate children.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 17, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, detention of children, Easter, migrant crisis, News, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
For the faithful young people migrant detention centers hold, the clergy and volunteers who visit bring comfort and healing through the sacraments.
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