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People march outside the White House Aug. 15 at a rally calling on President Donald Trump to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters) 
Politics & SocietyNews
Kevin Clarke
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.”
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Cecilia González-Andrieu
DACA is a small and imperfect step in realizing what we Christians assert as truth about the dignity of all.
A woman holds her cat as she rides a boat out of her flooded Houston neighborhood on Aug. 29. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kristin Zipple-Shedd
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.
A demonstration in support of the DACA program took place in front of the White House on Aug. 15. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Catholic leaders voice alarm that the president will end the DACA program protecting undocumented individuals brought to the U.S. as children.
Politics & SocietyNews
Deborah Gyapong - Catholic News Service
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.
In this Jan. 26, 2016 photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer).
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
The sheriff is the personification of law enforcement behaving lawlessly.