Lady Liberty has seen many tempest tossed generations set foot upon these shores. With each new wave of immigrants, the American Catholic Church has become a...
Immigration
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on immigration—stories, reflections, and news on migrants, refugees, and Catholic responses to migration issues.
Immigrants today experience economic, social, legal, and pyschological crucifixions. Last April I was working on a video documentary on the U.S.-Mexican border...
Some Catholics aren’t so sure about the bishops’ push for comprehensive immigration reform, but this Catholic activist says it’s time for the...
The immigration debate comes home to Catholic parishes She brought her children here from her country because she feared gangs would kill them. “I left...
The right paperwork can save lives among the world’s stateless people. After a record turnout of nearly 60 million Americans marched through voting...
How to deal with the immigration “problem”? Give people a real choice on migration. It may surprise red-white-and-blue Americans fixated on...
During Mass each Wednesday at Casa Juan Diego in Houston, immigrants speak of not eating for days, having nothing to drink for a week, seeing people die of...
One night in 1967, Marcelino Ramos entered the United States illegally in the trunk of a car. Crammed with him as the smuggler's car crossed the border...
The U.S. should be a good host and protect the migrant workers who knock on our door. In the colonial period the destitute and desperate escaping the...
We owe it to today's immigrants to be honest about the difficulties and prejudices against the huddled masses who came before them. On my father's...
