L.A. archbishop calls for prayer, restraint, immigration law reform amid ICE protests June 9, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles is calling for prayer, while urging “restraint and calm” as clashes have broken out in that city over recent immigration arrests. President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard amid pushback from California officials and is threatening to mobilize Marines.
Asking for human life and dignity protections in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ June 9, 2025By Archbishop Thomas Wenski OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Respect Life Congress could make this “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” less expensive, more advantageous economically and beneficial to the entire community by removing the increased spending on the enforcement-only approach to immigration and moving the bill forward with a stay on deportations of non-criminal immigrants.
N.J. diocese hopes proposed law will resolve religious worker visa problems June 9, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations, World News The Diocese of Paterson, N.J., and several of its foreign-born priests are hoping proposed legislation will resolve their lawsuit regarding religious worker visas.
Expectant mom seeking political asylum in U.S. urges protection of birthright citizenship June 9, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News An asylum-seeker in the U.S. from Cuba told OSV News that she is spending the final part of her pregnancy on bedrest amid anxiety about her unborn child’s future due to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that would bar her child from U.S. citizenship.
Anxiety, uncertainty follow Trump travel ban June 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News A ban by President Donald Trump that fully or partly restricts travel to the U.S. by nationals from several countries has prompted anxiety and uncertainty among Catholic immigration advocates — and for one priest, the ban means he won’t be able to see his family for the foreseeable future.
Report: Immigration data ‘much lower’ than Trump administration claims June 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News New data shows that the number of immigrants lacking permanent legal status in the U.S. “is much lower than the Trump administration claims,” and “talk of an invasion is overblown,” said J. Kevin Appleby, senior fellow for policy and communications at the Center for Migration Studies of New York.
Recent East Africa deportations violates court order and human dignity, say advocates May 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Catholic immigration advocates are expressing their concern after the Trump administration apparently deported several immigrants without permanent legal status to East Africa — despite a court order restricting the government from deporting people to nations that are not their countries of origin.
Is immigration history in the United States cyclical? May 26, 2025By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice The same racism, which is not as overt as it was in the past, seems to be guiding our current immigration policy.
Utah diocese’s Catholic refugee program gets helping hand from greater community May 24, 2025By Linda Petersen OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News After the federal government ceased its refugee resettlement program in January, Catholic Community Services of Utah was left scrambling to serve the 300 refugee families already in Utah that they had contracted to provide for.
Homeland Security vetting reality show idea where immigrants compete for citizenship May 16, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a pitch for a reality show in which immigrants would compete for fast-tracked citizenship. Catholic immigration advocates expressed concern such a show would undermine the dignity of those seeking U.S. citizenship or legal residency and the challenges they undergo to do so.
Justices zero in on consequences for hospitals, gun rights in birthright citizenship case May 15, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments May 15 over the Trump administration’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents without legal status or temporary visa holders, and whether federal judges could properly block that order.
Tennessee diocese clarifies Mass obligations as immigration crackdown empties pews May 15, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Amid an immigration enforcement operation in Nashville, Tenn., that has emptied the pews at several Spanish-speaking parishes, the Diocese of Nashville is reminding faithful that they are not required to attend Sunday Mass if they fear for their well-being according to the church’s own teaching and canon law.
