Maryknoll OGC Signs Letter to Senate Urging Against Foreign Aid Funding Rescission

Maryknoll OGC Signs Letter to Senate Urging Against Foreign Aid Funding Rescission

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined the Interfaith Working Group on Foreign Assistance of the Washington Interfaith Staff Community to write to the Senate and the Senate’s leadership on the Committee on Appropriations to ask for the rejection of the House bill that rescinded over $8 billion dollars of foreign aid, with the potential to cause irreparable harm and human suffering.

Maryknoll OGC Joins Amicus Brief to U.S. Court of Appeals on Behalf of Humanitarian Parole Plaintiffs

Maryknoll OGC Joins Amicus Brief to U.S. Court of Appeals on Behalf of Humanitarian Parole Plaintiffs

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 11 religiously-affiliated organizations that provide support to immigrants in writing to the U.S. Court of Appeals on the side of Plaintiffs, immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who are challenging Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s decision to end humanitarian parole.

Haiti: Trump Administration Ends TPS

Haiti: Trump Administration Ends TPS

The Trump Administration announced it will end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) early for about 500,000 Haitians living in the United States, exposing them to deportation as soon as Sept. 2. This comes three months after the Trump Administration revoked legal protections for thousands of Haitians who arrived legally in the country under a humanitarian parole program.