Migrants

High court allows Texas to enforce controversial law targeting migrants — for now

A divided U.S. Supreme Court March 19 lifted a temporary pause on a controversial Texas law that makes it a state crime for unauthorized migrants to cross into Texas from Mexico, allowing the state to enforce the law while litigation ...
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Orlando, a migrant from Ecuador, carries four-year-old Peter as they wade through the Rio Grande from Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas, Oct. 6, 2023. (OSV News photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)

Judge upholds program allowing some migrants to enter US

A federal judge March 8 dismissed a challenge from Republican-led states, allowing the Biden administration to continue operating a program permitting some migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
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An young activist takes part in a vigil against alleged abuses by the U.S. Border Patrol outside of the Annunciation House migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, Feb. 22, 2020. She holds a sign in Spanish that translates into English as "We are not a public charge." (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Catholics must have religious liberty to ‘meet migrants’ needs,’ bishops say

The ability of Catholic and other faith-based groups to "meet migrants' basic human needs" at the U.S.-Mexico border is a religious liberty issue and must be defended, U.S. bishops said in recent statements.
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Orlando, a migrant from Ecuador, carries four-year-old Peter as they wade through the Rio Grande from Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas, Oct. 6, 2023. (OSV News photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)

Advocate raises questions about a border proposal becoming an election issue

A leading Catholic immigration advocate has raised questions about whether restrictions in a bipartisan border proposal now before Congress will help the situation or make it worse for migrants trying to enter the U.S.
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Sister Norma Pimentel, a Missionary of Jesus, poses Nov. 11, 2023, at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, which helps migrants released by Border Patrol reach their final destinations in the United States. The center, a project of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Brownsville Diocese, has served more than 1,500 migrants daily (OSV News/David Agren)

‘We Have To Defend Life,’ Says Sister Norma, Who Ministers at Border

In many ways, Sister Norma, a Missionary of Jesus, has become the face of the Catholic response to migrants in the Rio Grande Valley, where she leads Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Brownsville.
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In this file photo, Pope Francis meets refugees at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, in 2016. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

U.S. bishop urges bipartisan support for resettlement of refugees

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, commended the Biden administration's refugee admissions allocations for fiscal year 2024.
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