immigration

In 2024, state laws of interest to Catholics: abortion, IVF, immigration

OSV News December 16, 2024

State laws of interest to Catholics spanned policy areas from abortion to IVF to immigration in 2024.

Migrant farmworkers attend an outdoor Mass Sept. 26, 2019, in Hatch, N.M., during a pastoral encounter by U.S. bishops with migrants at the border.

No sanctuary? Trump reportedly plans to reverse policy, permit ICE arrests at churches

OSV News December 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump plans to rescind a long-standing policy preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making arrests at what are seen as sensitive locations, including houses of worship, schools and hospitals, ...

Federal judge strikes down Biden program shielding undocumented spouses from deportation

OSV News November 12, 2024

A federal judge in Texas on Nov. 7 struck down a Biden administration program to protect from deportation and provide a path to U.S. citizenship for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants living in the country who are married to ...

A migrant identifying himself as Luis tries to book an appointment for entering the U.S. using the CBP One smartphone app, while resting in Mapastepec, Mexico. Frustrated with the lack of appointments available via the app, Luis and hundreds of other migrants in Mexico's southern Chiapas state formed a caravan to the U.S. in early October. (OSV News photo/David Agren)

Mexican lay couple help migrants amid rising dangers, difficulties

OSV News October 25, 2024

Daniel Hernández Rabanales got the call two days in advance: A caravan was forming and he needed to be ready.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, take part in their first and only debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City Oct. 1, 2024.

Vance and Walz debate abortion, immigration, gun policy and democracy

OSV News October 2, 2024

At the first and only debate Oct. 1 between Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the vice presidential nominees of their respective parties, the candidates sparred with each other on topics including abortion, immigration, gun policy relating ...

What If Our Immigration System Had a Franciscan Heart?

Suzanne Susany, OSF August 23, 2024

This Franciscan sister and immigration attorney shares lessons from St. Francis of Assisi that can help fix our broken immigration system.

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. walk into a temporary humanitarian respite center run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.

New study on Catholic attitudes on migrants, immigration and refugees

OSV News August 21, 2024

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), affiliated with Georgetown University, last month published a study on Catholic attitudes toward immigration, migrants, and refugees.