New York struggles to shelter, process asylum-seekers amid heat
New York, USReuters 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 thousands […]
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, USAP 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 and […]
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 a […]
“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, USAP 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 licenses […]
Migrant stories: Split up at the US-Mexico border, family finally reunites
MICA ROSENBERG and CARLOS BARRIA, of Reuters, report from Los Angeles on one migrant family’s struggle to be together…
Children in detention: How US Christian women are fighting immigrant family separations on Zoom
MICAH DANNEY, writing for Religion Unplugged, reports on the For Every Child campaign…
ESSAY: THE FAMILY VALUES WE NEED AT THE BORDER
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE, author and founder of the Rutba House, a house of hospitality in the US, reflects on his recent visit to the US-Mexican border…