Immigration

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, called for an end to mass deportation and redoubled efforts to show solidarity with those affected by that policy in a new …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed in the Senate as negotiations over new, stronger constraints on federal immigration officers stalled.  The same week, …

The “externalization” of migration in the Latin American region — particularly under the Trump administration’s hardline policies — is accelerating human rights violations while eroding human dignity, according to a …

An immigration advocacy day in Washington that brought Catholic delegations from several dioceses to meet with members of Congress.

A war powers resolution seeking to curtail President Donald Trump’s military actions in Iran failed in both the Senate on March 4 and the House on March 5. 

(OSV News) — Days after a meeting among several Catholic bishops serving along both sides of the Texas-Mexico border — a regular gathering for the “Tex-Mex” bishops — OSV News spoke …

(OSV News) — Katie Holler, a Catholic mother of two, had for months been following news of the Trump administration’s increasingly hardline immigration policies, but she still remembers when she …

The same week as the State of the Union in Washington, an international religious freedom watchdog flagged Turkey and bishops addressed the 2026 Farm Bill.

The coalition behind CLINIC v. Rubio is challenging a key claim the Trump administration made to justify barring immigrants from 40% of the world’s nations.

The USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services was one of 10 national resettlement agencies working with the U.S. Refugee Assistance Program.