“We do have a sovereign border, but we also have a call to recognize that there are people who are fleeing to this country to save their own lives.”

The Secretary of Education stirred up controversy when she said it was up to schools to decide if an undocumented student should be reported to authorities.

The Department of Homeland Security ignored warnings from top officials at the State Department by ending T.P.S. for Hondurans on May 4.

“They want to know who they’re talking to,” Father Forge said of police. “Well, we already issue our volunteers with ID cards, so we jumped on that.”

A group of representatives wants to force a vote on immigration reform in the House.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has vowed to prosecute anyone who enters the United States illegally.

Overall, about 40 percent of U.S. Catholics are Hispanic, according to the survey.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing a case decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals involving a Salvadoran woman who received asylum due to fleeing domestic abuse in her country.

Plans to halt a Bush-era legal program have been suspended, at least for the moment.

Archbishop Gomez called the USA Act a “good-faith compromise.”