Archbishop García-Siller keynoted “The Church in America: A Conversation on Immigration,” an event co-sponsored by America Media and the Mexican American Catholic College. Norma Pimentel, M.J., executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and Sean Carroll, S.J., executive director of the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Ariz., were respondents to the archbishop’s keynote.

Promising demographic data can easily be interpreted in a way that overlooks the textured history of Latino Catholics in the United States, one in which the very existence of Latino church communities has often come under threat.

Join America Media and The Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, Tex. as we host a conversation on immigration and the future of the American Catholic Church.

The Vatican's Migration and Refugees Section has urged the adoption of nonbinding global compacts concerning the protection and care of migrants and refugees.

The Golden Rule calls for a global compact on migration to benefit our interconnected countries and shared humanity, argues the president of Caritas Internationalis.

In the fiscal year of 2018, U.S. immigration judges denied asylum in 65 percent of cases.