The court said the president was within his rights to revoke Temporary Protected Status from Salvadoran immigrants. The ruling also is expected to affect TPS holders from Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sudan and Nepal.
Immigration
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At Mexican camp near U.S. border, asylum-seekers grow more desperate
Sister Norma Pimentel says that migrants that come for help ask for safety as well as sustenance.
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Cardinal calls for resettlement of asylum-seekers from Greek island
Amidst a pandemic, migrants suffer even more, as evident in the experiences of those in a Greek island camp.
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Cardinal Czerny: Care of the earth and concern for migrants are connected
The “common thread” among the celebrations, especially in 2020, the cardinal said, “is our common home in which the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor are one cry.”
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‘The Melting Pot’ is an outdated image of America. We need a new metaphor to define the nation.
What kind of people will we be, not only at the end of the Covid-19 storm but throughout the journey?
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Review: A refugee’s big-hearted tale of building an American identity
This story of a Vietnamese immigrant growing up in the United States is constructed as a series of meditations on the lessons from great books that moved and instructed him.
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Catholic leaders call for action on decade-old massacre of migrants in Mexico
Catholic church authorities are demanding an investigation into one of Mexico’s most notorious crimes: the murder a decade ago of 72 migrants by drug cartel gunmen.
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Complicated crossings: Pandemic has not stopped migration
Even at the height of Italy’s strict COVID-19 lockdown this spring, migrants arrived. The government said 241 newcomers came in March and 671 arrived in April.
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Czerny: Pandemic made people grasp role of migrants as essential workers
Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny: “We had to be as shocked and stuck” during lockdown before “our eyes began to open.”
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Jesuit superior warns of pandemic’s threat to democracy
“Democracy can be one of the victims of the pandemic if we do not take care with our political condition,” Father Arturo Sosa told Vatican News. “Many governments—including so-called democratic governments—are taking the path of authoritarianism.”