"Despite all divergences, we believe a political compromise is still possible," the bishops said in a Dec. 2 statement.

After one of my own teenage students was murdered, Emmett Till's grave became a place of occasional pilgrimage for me.

“We’re trying to do something for our nation,” says Taylor Charging Crow. “We’re risking our lives. We’re risking our families.”

The decision is a victory for the several thousand camped near the construction site.

The Jesuit presidents wrote they are called "to embrace the entire human family, regardless of their immigration status or religious allegiance.”

The leaders pledged to continue working "to protect to the fullest extent of the law undocumented students on our campuses" and to promote retention of students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.