Migrants

Protesters flank an entrance road at a temporary migrant detention center nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" in Ochopee, Fla.

Miami clergy raise concerns as Trump tours Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

July 3, 2025
Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center in the Florida ...
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A member of the Texas Army National Guard assists migrants, including Amaiia, a then-1-year-old asylum seeker from Nicaragua, as she and her mother Angelita navigate trails in the dark after crossing the Rio Grande into Roma, Texas, May 8, 2022. Many Nicaraguans continue fleeing their country because of political instability. (OSV News photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)

Expectant mom seeking asylum in US urges protection of birthright citizenship

June 10, 2025
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 ...
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group of people walking and fleeing

‘Protect All Those Who Flee’

March 3, 2025
It takes grit to cross a border for a better life, irrespective of laws.
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A federal judge in Maryland has halted a Trump administration policy rescinding long-standing restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making arrests at what are seen as sensitive locations, including houses of worship, schools and hospitals.

Judge blocks policy permitting ICE arrests at some places of worship

February 26, 2025
A federal judge in Maryland has halted a Trump administration policy rescinding long-standing restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making arrests at what are seen as sensitive locations, including houses of worship, schools and hospitals.
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Agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain a man after conducting a raid at the Cedar Run apartment complex in Denver Feb. 5, 2025.

Pope to U.S.: Migration policies built on force, not truth, ‘will end badly’

February 12, 2025
Pope Francis has urged U.S. Catholics and people of goodwill to not give in to "narratives" that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to migrants and refugees.
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A file photo shows a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe as it is unloaded from a truck after a procession to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, where Mass was celebrated.

California bishops back migrants fearing mass deportation in Guadalupe message

December 13, 2024
(OSV News) — As President-elect Donald Trump threatens to enact “the largest deportation” in U.S. history, California’s Catholic bishops have issued a message of support for migrants, invoking the protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe for them on her Dec. 12 feast. ...
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