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.”

New data shows the average age of a new priest at 33; the most common countries for foreign-born ordinands are Mexico, Vietnam, the Philippines and Colombia.

The Legal Orientation Program, which President George W. Bush put into place in 2003, helps detained immigrants know their rights and legal options.