While it may be some time before a comprehensive reform bill is ready to advance, several individual bills already have been introduced in Congress.

Since South Africa dropped its visa requirements for Zimbabweans, "the wait at the border on the South African side is said to be about nine hours."

Catholic social justice organizations, petitioned President Obama to support the formation of an independent commission on the use of torture.

Father Robert J. Cornell died May 10 at St. Norbert Abbey in De Pere, Wis.

Migrants and refugees tend to be the first to lose their jobs, in part because "their status is called into question."

A relief worker who recently returned from Pakistan's Swat Valley said the civilians displaced by a government crackdown face "horrible conditions."