1 de abril de 2021 WASHINGTON— Los obispos de diócesis ubicadas en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y el Norte de México emitieron un comunicado conjunto sobre la situación en esa región fronteriza entre los dos países. La declaración conjunta es la siguiente: Como obispos de Estados Unidos y de México en la frontera, diariamente [...]
April 1, 2021 WASHINGTON- The bishops along the border of the United States and Northern Mexico have issued a joint statement on the situation at the border of the two countries. Their joint statement follows: As U.S. and Mexican bishops along the border, we witness daily the dilemma that our migrant sisters and [...]
March 19, 2021 WASHINGTON—Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6) and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 1603), bipartisan bills that would provide a path to citizenship to more than three million immigrant youth, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) holders, and seasonal farmworkers [...]
March 11, 2021 WASHINGTON—On March 8, 2021, the Biden Administration announced that it will be designating Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS is a statutorily authorized immigration status, subject to certain conditions, that allows individuals to remain and work in the U.S. during a period in which it is deemed unsafe for them to [...]
February 10, 2021 WASHINGTON—Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington, and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration, Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on International Justice and Peace, and Sean Callahan, president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), have formally requested that [...]
February 5, 2021 WASHINGTON - The International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking will be observed on February 8. Designated by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development as a time of remembrance for victims and survivors of labor and sex trafficking, the annual observance coincides with the feast of St. Josephine [...]
February 3, 2021 WASHINGTON—Yesterday, President Joe Biden issued three migration-related Executive Orders related to removing barriers and restoring due process in the legal immigration system. The actions include orders to: (1) address root causes of migration from Central America and expand opportunities for legal migration; (2) create a task force to reunify families separated during [...]
January 22, 2021 WASHINGTON—On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring all U.S. residents to be counted in the U.S. census and reversed the prior administration’s unprecedented policy of excluding undocumented immigrants from the apportionment base. In addition to apportionment of congressional representatives, the decennial census impacts the allocation of hundreds [...]
January 21, 2021 WASHINGTON - Yesterday, President Joe Biden issued a Memorandum preserving and fortifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program was implemented in 2012 and has enabled approximately 800,000 young people, who paid a fee and submitted to a background check, the opportunity to work legally, access educational opportunities [...]
January 21, 2021 WASHINGTON—On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden revoked Executive Order 13768 of January 25, 2017 on “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” and implemented a 100-day moratorium on certain deportations, allowing for a comprehensive review of current immigration enforcement policies. Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington [...]