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Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, urged the U.S. bishops Nov. 11 to take further steps to show solidarity with migrants at their annual fall assembly.

The U.S.-Mexican bishops’ 2003 statement, “Strangers No Longer,” takes up “some principles that can guide people doing public policy.”

Human dignity comes “not from government, but from our loving God,” Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Oregon, declared in a Nov. 8 statement.

President Donald Trump and Republicans grappled with election losses Nov. 4 as the federal government shutdown became the longest in history. 

The Supreme Court has moved to block a judge order’s demanding full payments to fund SNAP after the Trump administration asked the high court to intervene.

The Texas Catholic bishops Nov. 4 issued a warning about the effects of a plan to implement a federal appeals court order on DACA affecting 86,000 young people.

“A tariff is a tax,” said Jesuit Father Stephen Pitts, professor of economics at Marquette University. “And so the question with any tax is, who will bear it?”

“Venezuelans have lost all hope after 26 years of socialist dictatorship and the largest refugee crisis in the world,” a Manhattan Institute fellow said.

Catholic bishops are among those who have acknowledged points of tension between the Trump administration’s immigration policy and religious liberty.

In fiscal year 2023, 79% of SNAP recipient households included either a child, an elderly individual or a nonelderly individual with a disability.