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In this Dec. 15, 2018, file photo, Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
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J.D. Long García
Today’s court decision removes any judicial check on the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track the deportations of asylum seekers who cannot show strong evidence of persecution in their home countries.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Michael J. O’Loughlin
Few questions dealt directly with Catholicism, but host Raymond Arroyo did ask the president about a letter written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
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Astrid Galvan — Associated PressDeb Riechmann - Associated Press
Trump denounced the high court's ruling that the administration improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is seen at the 2019 Prison Reform Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington April 1. Barr ordered the reinstatement of the federal death penalty July 25 for the first time in 16 years. (CNS photo/Yuri Gripas, Reuters)
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Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
Attorney General William Barr has set execution dates for four federal prisoners on death row.
In this Oct. 2, 2019, photo, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick leaves a meeting at the Capitol in Washington. President Trump fired him on May 15. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/file)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin W. Wildes
Unknown to most citizens, the dozens of inspectors general in the federal government look for waste, fraud and ethics violations. And President Trump has begun firing them, writes Kevin Wildes, S.J.
A Dec. 22, 2019, photo from a rally in Hong Kong to support the Uighurs, a Muslim minority group that has seen an estimated 1 million members detained in internment camps in China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Daniel Philpott
President Trump may be a flawed messenger, but his administration is making significant progress in promoting global religious freedom, writes Daniel Philpott of the University of Notre Dame.