Mr. Bannon said he believes the Catholic Church has been “terrible” to Mr. Trump on the issue of immigration.
Immigration
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Trump sends mixed messages on fate of Dreamers
Hours after the announced the end of DACA President Trump appeared to backtrack and leave open the possibility of revisiting DACA if Congress cannot pass legislation to protect Dreamers.
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Steve Bannon says Catholics “need illegal aliens to fill the churches”
Former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon believes the Catholic Church has been “terrible” to Mr. Trump on the issue of immigration, accusing bishops of supporting immigrants out of “economic interest.”
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The U.S. Catholic experience is increasingly Hispanic and Southwestern
Back in 1991, close to nine in 10 Catholics in the United States were white. Today, that number is down to 55 percent—and that percentage will continue to drop.
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Catholic Church leaders condemn Trump administration’s decision to end DACA
Reacting to the move to end DACA, the bishops said, “Today, our nation has done the opposite of how Scripture calls us to respond. It is a step back from the progress that we need to make as a country.”
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A teacher makes the Christian case to keep DACA
DACA is a small and imperfect step in realizing what we Christians assert as truth about the dignity of all.
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How Harvey brought new threats, and hope, to the undocumented in Houston
Immigrants face prejudice and hate-filled laws, but a devastating hurricane caused people of all races and religions to open their doors to the stranger.
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Miami archbishop: If Arpaio gets amnesty, why not undocumented immigrants?
Catholic leaders voice alarm that the president will end the DACA program protecting undocumented individuals brought to the U.S. as children.
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Canadian dioceses rally to help migrants fleeing U.S.
An estimated 7,000 men, women and children, primarily Haitians, have entered Canada over the summer since U.S. President Donald Trump ended a program offering temporary asylum to Haitians displaced by that nation’s 2010 earthquake.
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Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio is part of a long history of discrimination
The sheriff is the personification of law enforcement behaving lawlessly.