Standing (Online) With Immigrants - Justin Fung
This Sunday, March 21, we invite you to join with us and thousands of other people of faith from around the country, and with tens of thousands of other Americans, at March for America: Change Takes Courage and Faith. Come show your solidarity with immigrants to America and their families, and our support for just and humane immigration reform.
Cardinal urges Catholic college leaders to embrace immigration reform
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles and longtime advocate of comprehensive immigration reform, is frustrated with the lack of action from Congress on the issue and hopes that today's young people will bring about a change.
"They get it. They're the ones who will make this happen," he told a group of Catholic college and university leaders Jan. 30 in Washington in a presentation during the three-day conference of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.
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San Francisco archbishop speaks against immigration program
A federal program that checks the immigration status of people booked into local jails is tearing immigrant families apart, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco said at an interfaith gathering on Saturday.
"We cannot allow the pain of family separation and the fear amongst our communities to continue," Archbishop George Niederauer said in comments directed against the federal Secure Communities program. "We need to respect the dignity of all our sisters and brothers, undocumented or not."
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Immigration debate divides believers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Bible tells its readers to obey the law, but it also tells them to welcome strangers and foreigners.
That's left some Christians divided about the issue of immigration reform.
Members of Clergy for Tolerance, based in Nashville, say new immigration laws have to mix justice with compassion.
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Bishop: ‘we must continue to fight’ for federal immigration reform
Addressing a Catholic conference on immigration, Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City urged Catholics to advocate for immigration reform at the federal level.
“Different laws, particularly enforcement-only initiatives, played out in 50 states are bound to fail, since they will not fix a broken federal immigration system,” he said. Immigrants, over 70 percent of whom have been here five years or longer, are not leaving; they are just hiding in fear.”
Bishop Wester added:
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Immigration conference deals with the tough questions
SALT LAKE CITY -- Putting the cart in front of the horse is one way to describe the federal government's pursuing immigration enforcement before immigration reform, according to participants at a recent conference here.
The three-day gathering was convened in Salt Lake City by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its Migration and Refugee Services, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC).
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