Migration

A group of women looking for sons and daughters who were never heard from again after migrating to the U.S. traveled in mid- to late October throughout the country to plead for better immigration laws.

Immigrant advocates recently walked away from an online meeting with Biden administration officials to protest a move that will revive a Trump-era policy blocking people seeking asylum from entering the U.S.

he parable of the good Samaritan is never far from top-of-mind for Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas. His diocese and his see city are on the front lines of the immigration issue.

The Holy See participated in a working group on the smuggling of migrants organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The Vatican urged the international community to regulate cryptocurrency, especially because of its growing use in the smuggling and exploitation of migrants and vulnerable persons.

Hundreds of asylum seekers and allies march at the border and across the U.S. demanding for the end of Title 42 and the full restoration of asylum protections

The USCCB is one of nine national agencies that partners with the U.S. government in refugee resettlement. "The Catholic Church's involvement in refugee resettlement stems from the church's social teaching on the common good and is consistent with its long-standing role in welcoming newcomers and supporting integration."

The United Nations Children Educational Fund (UNICEF) draws attention to the increasing number of migrants crossing the Darien jungle on their way to the United States, including nearly 19,000 children this year.

US bishops commend the Biden Administration for increasing to 125,000 the number of refugees who can enter the United States in the new fiscal year. In a statement issued on Monday, they also call on Congress to sustain the Refugee Admissions Program for the next four decades and beyond.

Countries hosting millions of refugees are not receiving adequate support, and the situation is made worse when other nations forge agreements that trap migrants and refugees, often indefinitely, "at strategic points along their journey," said a top Vatican official.

On the occasion of the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul, the Catholic Primate of All Ireland recalled that even the smallest actions of generosity and compassion can make a difference to someone who is struggling with poverty.

Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington urged people to take up Pope Francis' invitation to "move from indifference to solidarity" to be better understand the plight of migrant people and refugees around the world.

At least five people have reportedly died along the Polish-Belarus border, where migrants fleeing war, persecution, and poverty are pushed back from the European Union.

More than 200 supporters gathered on both sides of the international the border in Nogales, Mexico, Sept. 25, the eve of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, to accompany 25 families seeking asylum in the United States. The Kino Border Initiative promotes border and immigration policies that affirm the dignity of the human person and supports the families who are fleeing violence in various parts throughout Latin America.

Bishop Mario Dorsonville, the chair of the USCCB’s Committee on Migration; and Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA issue a statement calling on the US government to reassess the treatment of Haitian and other migrants on the border between Mexico and the United States.

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador unveils a new initiative which seeks to root out the desperation of poverty, which leads to undocumented migration.

As thousands of migrants congregate underneath the Del Rio International Bridge, the Archbishop of San Antonio says the archdiocese will help however possible, but he fears an already overwhelming situation for the border city will get worse.

The Biden administration in mid-September reinitiated and expanded an immigration program aimed at reuniting some immigrant parents in the U.S. with their children left behind in Central America.

Over the course of the next six months, Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Nashville will help resettle 150 Afghans into local communities as part of the effort to help them escape Taliban rule under the U.S. State Department's Afghan Placement Assistance Program.