Missing from most of the national immigration debate has been the humanitarian aspects of the migration phenomenon.

In 2004 the organization ldquo Catholic Answers rdquo distributed voting guides in many parishes They highlighted five ldquo non-negotiable rdquo items for voters to consider abortion euthanasia embryonic stem call research human cloning and gay marriage If you needed to find five wedge i

This morning rsquo s Washington Post contains another disturbing example of how we should not be addressing illegal immigration issues in this country In Virginia a little noticed state law has gone into effect that requires the state rsquo s jails to inform federal immigration officials about all

What you thought of Barack Obama rsquo s speech in Berlin depends largely on what you thought of him beforehand nbsp nbsp If you have been swept up by Obamamania the specter of 200 000 Germans cheering an American waving American flags without so much as a whiff of protest is such a happy co

Some commentators have suggested that Latinos will call the November presidential election Others have suggested that race mdash an antipathy between blacks and Latinos that in the past caused them to choose a white candidate over a black one mdash would not bode well for the mixed-race Senator Bar

Yesterday the Matthew25 Network had a conference call with reporters to unveil their plans for the general election The group is composed of believers who are Democrats and who are ldquo inspired by the Gospel mandate to put our faith into action to care for our neighbor rdquo The group is the

The government is reporting a huge uptick in the number of arrests in their efforts to crack down on illegal immigration In 2004 there were only 845 arrests In 2007 there were 4 940 arrests Only 8 million more to go nbsp This is a farce except for the families who are arbitrarily chosen to

A Guarantee Thank you for “The Forgotten,” by Pierre de Charentenay, S.J. (6/9). The fate of Iraqi Christians should be as important to humanity as was the fate of Muslims in Sarajevo in the early 1990s, and their tragedy should inspire the same solidarity around the world, especially fr

Sen John McCain has seen his support among Latino voters tank and he needs to do something about it For years the GOP s share of this demographic has been growing and in 2004 George W Bush garnered 44 percent of the Latino vote But recent polls have Obama taking 60 percent of Latinos to McCa

Few Iraqi Refugees Resettled in U.S. More than 1,000 refugees from Iraq arrived in the United States in May, the most in recent months, bringing the fiscal-year total to 4,742 so far, the State Department reported June 3. But with just four months left in the fiscal year, the administration’s