“I have no idea about anything that’s going on in the world,” she said, because she is busy helping her nine children acclimate to life in the U.S.
Immigration
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What the U.S. bishops are urging all Catholics to do to accompany migrants and refugees
The reflection was issued “in solidarity with those who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, conflict or fear in their native lands.”
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Could Canada be the next country with a right-wing populist insurgency?
Some Canadian millennials are joining a political party solely to keep it from nominating another Trump.
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Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich pledges support for migrants during Telemundo special
The cardinal has frequently been critical of the Trump administration’s stance toward undocumented immigrants and refugees.
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Irish archbishop: St. Patrick was an ‘undocumented migrant’
“Let us think about Patrick the ‘unlearned refugee’ (as he once described himself), the slave in exile, Patrick the undocumented migrant.”
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Trump’s travel ban blocked in Maryland and Hawaii
The ruling near the nation’s capital was the latest blow to Trump’s ban, with a federal judge in Hawaii rejecting the measure on Wednesday.
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How the U.S. bishops are speaking out and standing up for immigrants
Catholic Church leaders in the U.S. spent the week of March 6-10 trying to allay fears and urging compassion.
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A parish priest asks: How do I respond when ICE comes for my flock?
The decisions of our government with regard to immigrants since Jan. 20 have been despicable, and support among Catholics for those decisions embarrassing.
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Outrage in Britain as unaccompanied migrant children are abandoned
Some estimates suggest that there could be as many as 90,000 unaccompanied refugee minors scattered across Europe.
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Fear of immigration drives populism in Netherlands, too
“Enough is enough,” Willem van Vliet said. “We lost our country.”