In sermon to Trump, Bishop Budde pleads for immigrants, transgender rights
Washington DC, US RNS President Donald Trump attended the inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday morning, finishing off the festivities marking the beginning of his second term with an interfaith service filled with prayers and hymns – and a sermon that offered a religious challenge to his administration’s stated goals. About […]
Trump vows to pardon 6th January defendants on day one and aims to deport all immigrants in the US illegally
Reuters President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he would act on his first day in office to pardon rioters involved in the 6th January, 2021 Capitol attack, further building expectations for a broad granting of clemency. “I’m going to be acting very quickly, first day,” Trump said on NBC […]
“Invisible” shipwrecks: Cubans missing on route to US leave painful void at home
DAVE SHERWOOD, of Reuters, reports on the open wounds left by those who have gone missing in search of a new life…
New York struggles to shelter, process asylum-seekers amid heat
New York, US Reuters Knees to their chests, dozens of men from countries such as Venezuela, Mali, and Senegal sat on a dirty New York City sidewalk outside a Manhattan hotel Tuesday, awaiting asylum processing. Some had been there for days, in a line that wrapped around the block and that underlined the challenge facing […]
The Long Read: Biden’s new asylum policy strands some migrants at Mexico border
LAURA GOTTESDIENER, TED HESSON, MICA ROSENBERG, KRISTINA COOKE and DAINA BETH SOLOMON, of Reuters, report…
US Catholic bishops’ president calls for better border management, continued care for immigrants
Orlando, Florida, US AP The leader of US Catholic bishops weighed in on ongoing immigration issues Thursday, calling for effective border management while emphasising the church’s need to help migrants – and questioning political leaders who are transporting them to faraway states. “We strive to encourage those well-intentioned lawmakers who are seeking to enact effective […]
UK’s Sunak says plan stopping small migrant boats is working
London, UK Reuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday his plan to stop migrants arriving in small boats had reduced crossings by 20 per cent, an update he hopes will ease criticism from his party and in the country over immigration policy. Sunak, who is expected to lead his governing Conservative Party into […]
“In the hands of God”: One Venezuelan family’s journey to the US; border crossings drop after Title 42 expiry
El Paso, Texas AP When Luis López was lost in Panama’s Darien Gap last year with his wife, then seven months pregnant, their two young children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them. “If I was bad, let me die here, but I came with my […]
Camp of Ukrainians at the US-Mexico border swells, as more refugees arrive
Tijuana, Mexico Reuters Hundreds of Ukrainians are camping in the Mexican border city of Tijuana hoping to seek US asylum, a surge in arrivals just days after the Biden administration said the United States would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing from war. Many of the Ukrainians escaping the Russian invasion of their home country […]
Migrant minors dispute pits Florida against Catholic Church
Miami, Florida, US AP The debate over whether to deter or accommodate minors arriving at the US-Mexico border without their parents has pitted Florida’s Catholic governor against the state’s highest-ranking Roman Catholic. The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and other faith leaders have implored the governor to reconsider an order that suspends renewals of state […]