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Tristan Taylor of Detroit speaks to people gathered June 9, 2020, during a caravan protest through Detroit neighborhoods while calling for relief for tenants and mortgage borrowers during the coronavirus pandemic. Catholic Charities' officials say people throughout the U.S. are at risk of eviction as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc on the economy. (CNS photo/Ryan Garza, USA Today Network via Reuters)
Tenants across the country may face eviction in August as courts reopen and protections created to respond to Covid-19 crisis are lifted.
Trump denounced the high court's ruling that the administration improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017.
DACA was implemented in 2012 under an executive order from President Barack Obama, but in 2017, the Trump administration rescinded it with its own executive order.
Brenda and Yarely—two “Dreamers” posing for a photo before their 2018 graduation from Trinity Washington University—consider themselves symbols of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which provides legal protections and work authorization to immigrants brought to the U.S. as children by their parents without legal documents. On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 ruling rejecting President Donald Trump's executive order to cancel DACA. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) 
“First, to DACA youth, through today’s decision and beyond,” the bishops said in a statement issued on June 18, “we will continue to accompany you and your families. You are a vital part of our church and our community of faith. We are with you.”
Congress must stop passing the buck to the courts and do the work of passing a just immigration law.
The justices rejected administration arguments that the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal.
The Archdiocese of New York, in partnership with Somos, an immigrant doctors network, will offer covid-19 testing to underserved communities in New York City.
Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life sponsored an online roundtable of Latino young adults who discussed the topic "Justice and Faith, Family and Community: Latino Leadership in a Time of Crisis."
The former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, gave voice to the thoughts of many in Africa when he wondered if George Floyd's murder "cannot shock the American populace to see evidence of their own decline, what can?"
The U.S.-Canada border crossing in Lacolle, Canada. The Trump administration is scheduled to formally publish more stringent asylum rules June 15 and allow 30 days for public comment. (CNS photo/Christinne Muschi, Reuters) 
The changes may eliminate multiple grounds under which people can be granted asylum and allow immigration judges to reject asylum applications without hearing from those seeking it.