Since Pope Leo spoke against the mass detention of immigrants last year, the U.S. Catholic hierarchy has begun to move in new ways. García-Siller’s new pastoral letter accelerates that shift.
Dylan Corbett
Dylan Corbett is the executive director of the Hope Border Institute, a Catholic research, advocacy and humanitarian action organization on the U.S.-Mexico border. He is also a former official of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development and of the Vatican’s Migrants Refugees Section.
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The result of dismantling asylum and TPS will be measured in lives
Asylum and T.P.S. are both legal instruments intended to keep people from being sent into harm’s way. Dismantling them does more than intensify enforcement.
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The U.S. bishops have made a (needed) statement on deportations. Now it’s time to act.
We must educate clergy, religious and all diocesan staff on the human rights issues involved in a mass deportation campaign.
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3 ways the Catholic Church can support migrants in the new Trump administration
In the face of dangerous nativism and the possibility of state violence through deportation, the church will be challenged to offer a compelling and credible response.