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Politics & SocietyLast Take
Joan Rosenhauer
Included in the list of actions against which our lives will be judged is: Did we welcome Jesus when he was a stranger?
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed three bills into law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration in the state, funding more border security initiatives and making illegal border crossings a state crime.
Asylum-seekers walk to a U.S. Border Patrol van after crossing the nearby border with Mexico on Sept. 26, 2023, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J.D. Long García
The notion that the flow of migrants will be stemmed by closing asylum “loopholes” is grotesque. Sometimes it’s hard to believe anyone in Congress sees migrants as human beings.
Politics & SocietyGoodNews
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Three2Six offers a basic education to undocumented migrant and refugee children, many of whom are barred from South Africa’s public schools because of their residency status.
Young migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico sit on the ground in Eagle Pass, Tex. The photo also shows a Border Patrol agent checking the papers of an adult migrant, but the heads of both are out of the frame. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Pablo Christian Soenen
The transport of nonconsenting asylum seekers is a mainstay of U.S. immigration policy, and certain practices of the Department of Homeland Security have been far more destructive than bussing migrants north.
Kerry Alys Robinson, new chief executive of Catholic Charities USA. (CNS photo/courtesy Kerry Alys Robinson)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Kerry Alys Robinson began her tenure as chief executive of Catholic Charities USA with a visit to agencies along the southwest border. “I wanted to see firsthand what the realities were," she explained.