The administration’s reported plan to slash refugee admissions to just 7,500 individuals in the next fiscal year will strand thousands of vetted refugees who were waiting to begin new lives in America A coalition of over 56 national, faith-based organizations is condemning the Trump administration’s reported plan to slash...
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Rev. David Black, who has since joined a lawsuit against the administration “alleging violations of the First and Fourth Amendments,” says he protests to let immigrants know “that they are not alone” Rev. David Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church, told Religion News Service that his arms had...
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There’s power in standing up for each other The recent release of a number of unjustly detained immigrants shows there’s power in resistance and speaking out for our neighbors. In Texas, Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira and Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago recently won their release from ICE detention after being swept...
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Following the death of Pope Francis last April, many Catholics and observers in the United States and around the world wondered if his successor would be as vocal as the late pontiff on the issues that concerned him, particularly when it comes to the treatment of immigrants and refugees...
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At a privately-operated immigration detention facility in New Jersey, some family members have to travel for hours just to get a 15-minute visit with their jailed loved ones. But at times, officials at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall have cruelly turned them away and told them to try again tomorrow,...
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Migrants and refugees are “messengers of hope” and a “true divine blessing” in a world often “darkened by war and injustice,” Pope Leo XIV said in his most extensive remarks on migration since his election to the papacy in May. “Indeed, they demonstrate this daily through their resilience and...
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On everything from immigration policy and national security to our personal freedom, the first six months of the second Trump administration has unleashed a wrecking crew of chaos and dysfunction across our country (and the world). At the same time, it reveals the rank hypocrisy from Trump and members...
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Florida mom Heidy Sanchez Tejeda was simply following the rules by going to what she thought was a routine immigration check-in back in April when she was suddenly taken into custody and told that she would be deported back to Cuba within hours. Making the matter even more excruciating...
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San Diego Bishop-elect Michael Pham, a former refugee who recently became Pope Leo XIV’s first bishop appointment, was among faith leaders to bear witness and support immigrants at their immigration court hearings on World Refugee Day last Friday, compelled by their values and the unprecedented surge in arrests of...
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Earlier this month, Pope Francis wrote a powerful letter condemning the Trump administration’s demonization of migrants and plans for mass deportation. “I have closely followed the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations,” Francis wrote to U.S....
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