Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Trump administration officials and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on April 14 dismissed arguments that an erroneously deported Maryland man should be returned to the United States from a prison where he is being held in El Salvador.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations, World News
The U.S. bishops on April 10 told congressional lawmakers they support bipartisan legislation that would ease some immigration restrictions on religious workers from other countries, allowing them to stay in the U.S. while they wait for permanent residency.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Using forced deportations and detainment to deal with migration is “a scandal,” said Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Sister Idalina, a native of Brazil, is director of the Center for Attention to Returned Migrants, a joint effort of the Catholic Church and several government and nongovernmental agencies.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News
The Supreme Court issued a ruling April 7 allowing the Trump administration to continue to deport migrants accused of gang membership using a wartime powers law for now, overturning a lower court that had paused such deportations. However, the high court also stressed that individuals subject to such deportations are entitled to judicial review, prompting an emergency filing before a federal court in New York the following day.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the federal government in those areas became “untenable.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
U.S. adults hold mixed views of Trump administration policies, including on deportations, a new Marquette Law School Poll found.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
OSV News interviewed Bishop Mark J. Seitz, who heads that diocese, for his thoughts on current U.S. immigration policy and the challenges faced by those he serves in his borderlands community. Bishop Seitz currently chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Representatives of Catholic and immigration advocacy organizations, and Washington’s new Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, grappled with the need to send a clear moral message on the dignity of migrants amid the “uncertainty” of the political moment at a recent event in the nation’s capital.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Catholic groups that minister to migrants and refugees are expressing concern over President Donald Trump’s order to revoke the parole program that allows legal migrants from several Latin American and Caribbean countries to connect with sponsoring family members and work in the United States.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Mass deportations and asylum bans — part of the Trump administration’s rapid changes to U.S. immigration policy — destroy communities and human dignity, while constituting a “war on the poor,” said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News
The same day Pope Francis was discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital after a five-week stay for treatment for double pneumonia, a group of Vatican doctors took their Lenten alms initiative a step further and helped provide medical care to a group of migrants.
