Tag: Immigration

Cardinal Joe: Trump’s Immoral Wall Threatens Lives, Is Based on Lies and Anti-Immigrant Agenda

Cardinal Joseph Tobin writes: A wall would probably drive them into more remote areas of the desert or mountains, possibly to their deaths, as the forces driving them — violence, persecution and extreme poverty — are more life threatening than a risky border crossing. In fact, close to 8,000 migrants have died in Arizona and… Read More Cardinal Joe: Trump’s Immoral Wall Threatens Lives, Is Based on Lies and Anti-Immigrant Agenda

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Trump’s Immigration Remarks Reflect His Bigotry

via AP: Archbishop John C. Wester, the leader of New Mexico’s largest diocese said Wednesday he believes comments about immigration attributed to President Donald Trump “reflect bigotry” and that immigrants from poor countries made the U.S. great…. Last week, while meeting with lawmakers about a potential deal on immigration, Trump questioned why the U.S. should… Read More Trump’s Immigration Remarks Reflect His Bigotry

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Trump Attacks Immigration from ‘Shithole’ Countries

via Washington Post: President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed granting entry to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”… Read More Trump Attacks Immigration from ‘Shithole’ Countries

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Whole Life Pope Identifies Immigration as a Pro-life Issue

Christopher White writes: During his in-flight press conference en route home from Colombia, the pope recalled that “I heard the president of the United States introduce himself as a ‘pro-life’ man. “A good pro-lifer understands that family is the cradle of life, and that its unity must be defended,” the pope said. The pope’s remarks… Read More Whole Life Pope Identifies Immigration as a Pro-life Issue

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Millennial Catholics Mobilize against Trump’s Refugee Ban

Teresa Donnellan at America reports: “All are welcome in this place,” a crowd of people sang in Lafayette Square outside of the White House this afternoon. More that 550 people gathered to attend a Mass organized by young Catholics and celebrated by Father Quinn Conners in Washington, D.C., to express their solidarity with refugees and immigrants.… Read More Millennial Catholics Mobilize against Trump’s Refugee Ban

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What Alexander Hamilton and Pope Francis Share on Immigration

Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: Today Europe faces a crisis on a scale never before seen—and the latest numbers reveal the situation to be getting worse. The month before Pope Francis traveled to Lesbos, almost 9,600 migrants attempted to cross the Mediterranean into Italy, more than four times… Read More What Alexander Hamilton and Pope Francis Share on Immigration

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Blessings From the Border: A Sojourners Q+A with Christopher Hale

Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale was recently interviewed by Sojourners: Hammill: You mentioned earlier the social mission of the Catholic Church and how you want to lift that up. Would you mind going into a little detail about that? Hale: The social mission of the Catholic Church can be reduced to the following: God became poor… Read More Blessings From the Border: A Sojourners Q+A with Christopher Hale

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