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Michael Okinczyk-Cruz, executive director of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, described the visits as “very meaningful” for detainees.

“We show that heightened ICE activity is harming the labor market overall, and we find no evidence that it is benefiting U.S.-born workers.”

“The goal here today is to get us energized to take the next steps as dioceses, parishes, religious congregations or as groups of Catholic organizations.”

“The new Immigration and Customs Enforcement measures have been overcrowding U.S. facilities, so they now need to send some deportees to other countries.”

“The solution is not to detain them” but “to create a pathway for them to go through the process and become citizens and continue to build this country.”

“The practical effect of these policies is the withdrawal of asylum protection altogether, which is a violation of both U.S. and international law.”

“Tragic events in Minneapolis have exposed the abuses of ICE and marked a turning point in how the public views the immigration policy of the administration.”

(OSV News) — Among the statements and briefings released by the White House in January was an article titled, “Mass Deportations Are Improving Americans’ Quality of Life.” Mass deportations, it said, …

(OSV News) — More U.S. Catholic bishops have released messages of concern as tensions continue to soar amid the Trump administration‘s immigration crackdown, with clashes between protestors and enforcement agents flaring …

“Principles of human dignity and compassion are discarded in favor of a calculus that values the acquisition of wealth, military power” and stoking divisions.