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Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington, center, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration and retired Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden of Baltimore speak with Deacon Chris Schwartz of the Archdiocese of Washington, during a March 2, 2020, trip to Howard County Detention Center in Jessup, Md., for prayer and conversation with migrant detainees held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Credit: Jim Waterbury/courtesy In Solidarity via CNS)


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A pair of bishops who spent two hours at a Maryland detention center praying and talking with a small group of immigrants facing deportation saw how strong family bonds are.

The 10 detainees, all Spanish speakers, asked the bishops foremost to pray for their wives and children who are fending for themselves in daily life without them, Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration, said after the March 2 visit.

"How sad it is to see this drama of broken families," the bishop told Catholic News Service.

"Most of them were in tears," he added. "It has been a very painful experience for all of them. We realized that this is the time to work with them and pray for them. It is important to have this kind of human encounter and to continue to advocate for them."

The meeting included time for prayer, Scripture reading and discussion with the men, who have been held for various lengths of time. One man had 4-month-old and 2-year-old children, he said, while another man revealed that his mother had died in the last day or two.

Retired Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden of Baltimore joined the meeting, which was arranged by Deacon Chris Schwartz, coordinator of prison ministry for the Washington Archdiocese, and Lonnie Ellis, executive director of In Solidarity, a Washington-based Catholic advocacy organization.

"These men come from Central America mostly. They're looking for whatever is going to give them hope," Schwartz said.

Nine of the 10 men are facing deportation, he said. The 10th was a local man who decided to join the gathering.

Madden offered a reflection on how mercy and love for others even in the face of hurt, will bring people closer to God.

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The SCOTUS voted, 8 to 1 (!), to keep the MPP (colloquially known as "remain in Mexico") policy. Finally--a decision which no one can appeal and that settles the matter once and for all. No, if you are pro-immigrant you don't have to like the policy but now you have to learn to live with it.

Those people wouldn't be having as many problems if Mexico City would do something about the cartels instead of ignoring them or taking their bribe money.
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Bishop urges Congress to show compassion, solidarity with refugees [In-Depth]
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Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington, who is the chairman of the U.S. bishops' migration committee, addresses the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship in Washington Feb. 27, 2020. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS)


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During a Feb. 27 congressional hearing about the status of the nation's refugee program, Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington quoted someone who is not frequently mentioned on Capitol Hill: Pope Francis.

"Today I am here to echo the Holy Father's message: to recognize that we must at all times, but particularly at this moment of great global turmoil, recognize the most vulnerable and welcome them to the extent we are able," he said.

The bishop, chairman of the migration committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, pointed out to the members of Congress and others seated in the hearing room that he was there to offer his perspective as a naturalized immigrant to the United States from Colombia.

He was one on a panel of four people addressing the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, looking at the status of the U.S. Refugee Program, a week before 40th anniversary of the bipartisan Refugee Act of 1980, signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.

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Dorsonville did not talk about the specifics of U.S. efforts to resettle refugees, now hampered by declining numbers permitted to enter the United States, but he emphasized more than once the country must do more.

"Despite cuts to resettlement programs and numbers of refugees allowed, we need to welcome refugees now more than ever," he said. He also said the worst response would be indifference, the direct opposite of the concern Pope Francis has asked the world to show refugees.

"We have a strong responsibility to be leaders in the international community," he added, stressing that if the country closes its doors, it will be isolating itself in the global world at the very time it should be showing compassion and solidarity to refugees.

The bishop pointed out that Pope Francis, in his first public trip as pope, visited the southern Mediterranean island of Lampedusa where he prayed for the hundreds of African migrants who drowned while trying to reach the shores of Europe. He asked during this visit a question the bishop said applies to everyone: "Where is your brother, your sister?"

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Is Bishop Dorsonville allowing immigrants to stay in his house? No? Then he needs to shut the fuck up.
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Yet more "Do as I say, not do as I do"...

Don't these numbnuts prelates ever realise the obvious hypocrisy in their sanctimonious stances?
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Coronavirus is simply going to make many governments significantly less likely to want to help immigrants to their country.
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UK people aren't allowed in the US right now. I was wondering when we'd finally ban you fucking limeys. :wink:
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:biggrin: Well if isn't Rab C. Nesbitt! Still carrying that chip on yer shoulder, I see.
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Church leaders urge that migrants not be forgotten during coronavirus pandemic [In-Depth]
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Migrants and refugees are pictured on a large bronze statue in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 29, 2019. The Vatican celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2020 will be celebrated Sept. 27, the Vatican said, and the pope's choice for a theme is: "Forced like Jesus Christ to flee." (Credit: CNS)


NEW YORK -- Catholic leaders across the globe are pleading that migrants and refugees not be forgotten during the Covid-19 pandemic, insisting that it's a public health issue affecting everyone -- regardless of one's legal status.

Across the world, Catholics have been on the front lines directly lobbying political leaders to ensure migrants receive access to healthcare, to leading field operations providing legal and medical assistance, and pioneering new forms of outreach and support through social media.

"There's a real danger of thinking this as a migration issue and not a public health issue," said Ashley Feasley, director of policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Migration and Refugee Services (MRS) office.

Feasley told Crux that her office has three major concerns that they are hoping that the U.S. Congress responds to immediately: Access to healthcare for all, regardless of immigration status; suspension of the Trump administration's plans to implement the public charge rule which would deter immigrants from seeking support they need; and the possibility of enforcement occurring at sensitive locations, such as hospitals, churches, and schools.

"Misinformation and fear mongering have and will make the problems worse and likely restrict access further," Feasley said. "We urge the administration to clearly lay out that they will hopefully be repealing or at the least suspending the public charge rule at this time and to clearly communicate that no enforcement actions will occur around sensitive locations -- especially hospitals and clinics."

Last week, a coalition of Catholic agencies, including MRS, the Catholic Health Association, and Catholic Charities, sent a joint letter to the Department of Homeland Security outlining these concerns.

"As reflected in Catholic teachings, the right to life extends to life-saving protection and the right to seek safety and to care for one's family," they wrote. "During this global pandemic and national emergency, access to treatment and care for immigrants, including undocumented individuals, is critical to tracking and responding to the crisis. Removing barriers to testing and treatment not only saves lives but keeps all Americans safer."

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Dylan Corbett of the HOPE Border Institute, which works in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, says that the Trump administration has weaponized the panic created from the spread of the coronavirus to turn back asylum seeks trying to enter the U.S. from the southern border.

"They are using pandemic as an excuse to effect the controls that they've always wanted to implement, which is the end of asylum," Corbett told Crux, who says that despite the unprecedented situation, the U.S. has the resources to help those in harm's way.

"We do have the ability to marshal resources to aid those coming for asylum," he said, arguing that the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy, which has forced over 60,000 asylum seeks to wait in Mexico as their legal challenges play out, "continues to heap cruelty" on those in need of help.

"People have to realize that these policies are continuing to dehumanize people on other side of the border," said Corbett, noting that many are living in dangerous situations and are in need of medical attention.

"The coronavirus is here in the region," Corbett said, and "we've seen families who have been afraid to seek medical care."

"We need to get ICE and border patrol to commit not to enforcement actions against nonviolent individuals," he said pointing to past situations such as the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and Hurricane Sandy as precedent.

"Folks are spooked," he said, but as a community organization, he said his staff is trying to work with local elected officials on matters big and small, from limiting the contagion in migrant shelters, which are often already overcrowded, to preventing price gouging, and making sure utility companies are not shutting off for those experiencing economic hardship.

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Some tout DACA recipients as key in COVID-19 fight [In-Depth]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The video begins with a nurse named Sol, a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, who was brought to the United States at age 9.

Today, she is a registered nurse, and one of 27,000 beneficiaries of the program that allows young adults who were brought into the United States illegally as children the opportunity to work in the U.S., and exempts them from deportation, if they meet certain criteria.

That significant population, serving in U.S. hospitals, including emergencies wards as Sol does, is key in fighting the current coronavirus pandemic, argue supporters of DACA beneficiaries known as "Dreamers."

Some ask that an imminent Supreme Court decision that will determine whether the program can continue be delayed or side with the recipients who don't just work as nurses or doctors but are vital in the daily operations needed in U.S. hospitals and other places that are keeping the U.S. going in the middle of a pandemic.

"We are stronger and safer thanks to the contributions of Dreamers and other immigrants providing essential services to our communities and the economy at this difficult moment," said Candy Marshall, president of the organization TheDream.US, which describes itself as the nation's largest college access and success program for immigrant youth in this country without documents.

In a statement issued March 27, Marshall said the 27,000 DACA recipients nationwide "are serving as health care workers and many are on the frontlines of our national pandemic response and containment efforts." But the decision would affect 700,000 who benefit from DACA nationwide.

One of them is Sol the nurse, who says in the video the organization issued, that "DACA has made us resilient, has made us resourceful," and it's those skills the country needs most right now, the organization said.

"We are all in this fight against COVID-19 together and should recognize that including DACA recipients and other immigrants in ongoing recovery and containment efforts is both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do," the statement said.

It also notes that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices are not open because of the coronavirus and are not processing DACA renewals, putting many of the young migrants, and therefore the health system, in a precarious situation.

They also argued for the protection of those with Temporary Protective Status program, or TPS, a program that grants a work permit and reprieve from deportation to certain people whose home countries have experienced natural disasters, armed conflicts or exceptional situations, so they can remain temporarily in the United States.

"The Supreme Court should delay an announcement on the pending DACA case and (U.S. Department of Homeland Security) and lawmakers should work together to ensure that DACA and TPS status can be extended," the organization said.

Faith leaders, including many from Catholic organizations, joined in the calls for a delay of the high court's decision expected no later than late June.

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I am already on record stating that Congress should have granted citizenship to DACA folks. Immigration really isn't important right now, though.
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Hashi Lebwohl wrote:I am already on record stating that Congress should have granted citizenship to DACA folks. Immigration really isn't important right now, though.
I agree but how many times will we rinse and repeat this? We grant citizenship and to people that were brought here illegally and it just gives more migrants hope that their children will see the same treatment at some point.

Frankly until we get serious about illegal migration, and really hammer companies that hire illegal immigrants, and control our borders, this will just be a rinse repeat every couple of decades.
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SoulBiter wrote:Frankly until we get serious about illegal migration, and really hammer companies that hire illegal immigrants, and control our borders, this will just be a rinse repeat every couple of decades.
We are on the same page there. Congress needs to fix/overhaul immigration just like it has needed to for at least the last 20 years. DACA needs to be a one-time thing, then back to "business as usual"--come in legally, apply, wait, then eventually take your test and become naturalized.
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Yeah, if you don't remove the incentive (employment) people will keep coming, because they desperately want something better than what they have.

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Avatar wrote:Yeah, if you don't remove the incentive (employment) ...
Corona's got that covered.

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Deadly Consequences of "Business As Usual" and Immigration Enforcement
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As COVID-19 rapidly advances across the country, local justice systems are focusing their resources on essential services. Police and prosecutors are focusing on violent crimes, detainees are being released, and criminal courts are prioritizing the most serious criminal offenses. These efforts reflect a commitment to saving both lives and taxpayer dollars through the pandemic. Meanwhile, U.S. immigration systems are operating under the status quo, with devastating consequences.

Life continues as usual for the 38,000 immigrants who are detained in the US, including approximately 7,000 children. It's important to remember - these individuals are not serving time for a crime. Instead, they are waiting for a hearing to determine whether they can legally remain in the country under civil proceedings.

On the day California issued its initial social-distancing order, it was still business as usual for ICE agents, who, newly armed with protective health gear, including gloves and N95 masks, continued to apprehend immigrants. The same week, the Department of Justice ordered all multilingual CDC posters demonstrating procedures to minimize COVID-19 contamination to be removed from immigration courtrooms. (The order was shortly reversed after a backlash from immigration judges.) Immigration courts continue to operate at full speed, ignoring health-care risks and shelter-in-place orders.

In the 140 immigration facilities detaining adults and families, social distancing is not an option, as a group of Loyola University Chicago law students and I found when we visited immigration detention facilities in Arizona earlier this month. We entered prison-like facilities, each housing over 1,000 detainees, surrounded by endless rows of razor wire and armed guards. Detainees share cells and are not allowed to move through the facilities without an guard escort. They eat in communal spaces, and shower in communal spaces. The same days we heard detainees tell us about sexual assault, murder, and persecution they suffered in their home country, we heard guards laughing at the detainees, joking that they should "turn on the sprinklers" to make them move faster. We reviewed reports documenting sexual abuse of minors and limited access to medical care for immigrants in federal custody. But the threat of COVID-19 was also on our minds -- and theirs.

While there are contracted cleaning services at the facilities, detainees who opt in to work, provide cleaning services for a mere $1 a day. A lawsuit filed against DHS last week alleges that gloves, hand sanitizer, masks, and other essential supplies are not available inside detention facilities. Government attorneys have argued that soap and toothpaste are "non-essential" items for immigrant children placed in federal custody.

By failing to close immigration courts and detention centers, the federal government is telling immigrants their lives do not matter. It also increases the risk of transmission of COVID-19, with potentially deadly consequences not only for detained immigrants, but also for immigration court personnel, ICE officers, detention staff, and the general public. Regardless of one's views on immigration, we all should all have a shared goal of saving lives.


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The easy solution is to just ship them all back to their country of origin, their asylum status be damned. If we cannot gather together in groups larger than 10 (or larger than 2, depending upon the locale) then they don't get to have their day in immigration court.
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Pandemic adds increasing burdens on immigrants without legal status [In-Depth]
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A woman near El Paso, Texas, walks on the international border bridge with Mexico March 13, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has increased burdens on immigrants without legal status. (Credit: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters via CNS)


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- From a darkened room, the immigrant spoke in mid-March via Skype to a reporter from the TV station Guatevision, which focuses on issues pertaining to Guatemalans in and outside of the country.

He told her that in Ohio, where he lives, though the community has been generally kind without regard to a person's immigration status, the fear among immigrants without legal permission to be in the U.S. was rampant -- and the coronavirus was just one of many mounting problems.

Work in Ohio, as in the rest of the country and the world, has dried up. Having no health insurance, even some experiencing symptoms were seeking to fight the virus in their residences, without receiving any medical care or advice, risking death and exposing others to the virus.

Jose Arnulfo Cabrera, director of education and advocacy for migration at the Ohio-based Ignatian Solidarity Network said in an interview March 27 with Catholic News Service that for many immigrants, particularly those without legal documentation, the COVID-19 crisis has added another layer of fear and thrown them into an economic crisis with no safety net.

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There's also little information about what the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can or can't do in this crisis to a person without legal permission to be in the country, or to a person without that legal status if he or she seeks emergency medical care.

"The information about ICE reducing their operation really hasn't gotten to the community, so many people are fearful ICE will come to their homes," Cabrera said. "In Ohio, the governor has issued a stay-in order.

"There hasn't been any translating on the order, so many folks who don't speak English don't understand what's going on. Last Sunday I spent translating the governor's order for Spanish-speaking families for hours."

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In New York, Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, urged "New York state, New York City and the philanthropic community to continue to provide services to the immigrant population in light of the federal government's exclusion of certain immigrant families, workers and children from many types of support in the federal assistance programs created to help those impacted by COVID-19," according to a March 30 news release issued by the organization.

Sullivan said Catholic Charities in New York would remain committed to serving all immigrants.

"We call on our New York public and private partners to continue our New York tradition of including all immigrants in any coronavirus relief assistance that will be made available," he said.

"It is not surprising to us -- yet still disappointing -- that in this unprecedented crisis, the federal government's $2 trillion CARES Act relief package leaves behind millions of hard-working families, schoolchildren, and taxpaying immigrants who are seeking to adjust their status as legal residents and citizens," the priest said. "This leaves many immigrants even more vulnerable in this pandemic. Consistent with our mission Catholic Charities will stand with, and help, to the best of our ability, these most vulnerable of our neighbors."

But the biggest worry is the deadly result that fear and distrust of the government can cause among certain immigrants.

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India Church focuses on marginalized, migrants during coronavirus lockdown [In-Depth]
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Indians buy vegetables during lockdown in Bangalore, India, Thursday, March 26, 2020. The unprecedented lockdown keeping India's 1.3 billion people at home for all but essential trips to places like supermarkets or pharmacies is meant to keep virus cases from surging above the 553 already recorded and overwhelming an already strained health care system. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Credit: Aijaz Rahi/AP)


MUMBAI, India -- India's Catholic Church is doing what it can to provide relief for millions of poor people affected by the lockdown imposed by the government to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Much of India's economy is informal, and millions of people live day-to-day and have been adversely affected by the nationwide quarantine.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi specifically apologized to the nation's poor for the lockdown, which is lasts until April 15, but said there was "no other way to wage war against coronavirus."

Indian health officials have confirmed more than 1,000 cases of the coronavirus, including at least 29 deaths.

India has over 1.3 billion people, and its hospital infrastructure would collapse if suffered an outbreak similar to the one in Italy.

"It is a battle of life and death and we have to win it," Modi said.

The country's Christians make up just 2.3 percent of the population, but the Catholic Church has pledged to offer food, shelter, clothing, and medical care to the most vulnerable during the crisis.

This includes the millions of people trying to flee from the cities to their home villages, many of the trapped during transit as government officials try to slow the movement of people, in an effort to also slow the movement of the coronavirus.

"All our Dalit and Tribals, migrants of every caste and creed, rendered homeless and jobless due to the lockdown are being taken care of selflessly , by the clergy, religious and nuns of Vasai Diocese," said Archbishop Felix Machado, who serves as the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.

Many Christians in India come from the socially marginalized Dalit and Tribal communities. The Dalits are from the lowest rungs of the Hindu caste system, and the Tribals are the country's indigenous communities, mostly located in India's forests.

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Meanwhile, the local bishop has condemned images of migrants being hosed down with a chlorine-water mix in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, in a supposed anti-coronavirus measure.

"This is inhuman, because these people are poor and marginalized and desperate, our migrants laborers and their families," said Bishop Ignatius D'Souza of Bareilly.

"Their dignity cannot be violated in this inhuman and shocking manner. Each person has to be treated with human dignity," he told Crux.

He compared the treatment of the migrants to Indian celebrities who have tested positive for COVID-19, who he said "received the best treatment."

"Our poor people do not deserve this indignity. It's an affront against the dignity of the human person," the bishop continued.

"These people have nothing, not provided with any means of transportation to return to their place of origin. The Catholic Church of Bareilly has been distributing thousands of food packets to those who arrive. Our people have been going out -- with safety precautions and following government guidelines -- and giving food packets to the people stranded at bus station, railway stations and other junctions," he said.


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