Maryknoll OGC joins in asking for Nicaraguan TPS
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns was among the 120 national and local faith-based organizations to cal on President Biden to redesignate TPS for Nicaragua.
Migration
Maryknoll missioners have worked with migrants and people on the move for decades. They have served Burmese refugees in Thailand, Filipino and Thai workers all over Asia, Burundian and Rwandan refugees in East Africa, and have accompanied Guatemalans, who, after years in Mexico, returned home to start anew in a more peaceful country. Our faith compels us to stand in solidarity with migrants.
In the United States, we are profoundly affected by the contribution of migrants in our society, and we have a responsibility to treat them, like all the rest of God’s creation, with dignity and respect. Maryknoll missioners work in ministries serving migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. In our work on U.S. migration policy, we focus on access to asylum and humanitarian protection, refugee aid and resettlement, and access to citizenship.
Maryknoll Joint Leadership Statements on Migration: Toward Global Solidarity (2006) and Statement on the Migrant Caravan (2018)
Policy Brief: Justice for Immigrants and Refugees in U.S. Policy
Catholic Groups Ask Pres. Biden to Reconsider Deterrence Immigration Policies
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined fourteen other Catholic organizations in calling on President Biden to reverse restrictive border policies.
Watch Good Friday Economic and Ecological Way of the Cross
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Maryknoll Statement on Death of Migrants in Fire in Mexico
The fact that these migrants – many of them reportedly from Venezuela – were forced to wait in Mexico while on their migration journey to the U.S. border is the United States’ shame.
Senate Hearing on Refugees Statement
Statement for the Record U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on “Living Up to America’s Promise: The Need to Bolster the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program” March 22, 2023
Add Your Comment: Protect Right to Seek Asylum
The Biden Administration has proposed a new immigration rule that will drastically reduce people’s ability to seek asylum.
CBP One App: Biased Against Dark-Skinned People
The agency’s app is now the exclusive way to schedule appointments to request asylum. The app, rated 2.7 and 2.5 out of five in the Google and Apple stores, respectively, has limitations and errors that effectively exclude the most vulnerable populations of asylum seekers.
Faith Groups Demand Restored Access to Asylum
Human rights organizations, religious groups, and members of Congress have repeatedly urged the Biden administration not to move forward with the proposed rule announced yesterday and to restore equitable access to asylum.
Take Action for Asylum Seekers
President Biden has announced a new set of asylum restrictions that will deny most migrants access to protection. Tell Congress to speak out against these policies and defend asylum seekers.
Maryknoll OGC Tells Biden Not to Ban Asylum
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 164 other faith-based organizations in writing to President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary Mayorkas, and Secretary Blinken to express concerns over new immigration rules that could restrict access for some people to their rights to seek asylum.
Maryknoll OGC Asks Incoming House of Representatives for Humane Immigration Policy
We urge Members of Congress to reject the politics of fear and hate and vote no on the “Border Safety and Security Act” and all subsequent anti-immigrant legislative vehicles.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Opposes Expansion of Title 42
With the new policies announced by President Biden, the right to seek asylum at ports of entry continues to shrink to the point of illusion.
Ask Congress to protect Dreamers and asylum seekers
Ask Congress to end Title 42 and protect Dreamers. Dreamers cannot wait for a permanent status and asylum-seekers cannot wait for entry.
Last Congressional Stretch – Immigration Action
American Dream and Promise Act, Farm Workforce Modernization Act, Afghan Adjustment Act – It is conceivable (if unlikely) that these legislative bills will be able to return in the next congresses in undiluted form, but there is no justification for needlessly postponing the accomplishments for another several years.
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Debbie Northern, a Maryknoll lay missioner in El Paso, Texas, reflects on the Christian call to seek justice for all who are oppressed.
Support for Justice for Family of Anastasio Hernández Rojas
Now is the moment to hold CBP and other law enforcement in the United States accountable, and point to the reforms that will open a new chapter, one where human rights and life are paramount and protected at all times for all people.
Dreamers Need Our Support in Congress
Time is running out for Congress to take action for Dreamers.
Migrants Need Compassionate Welcome
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and missioners working on the southern border call for this shameful practice [of sending migrants to northern cities without a plan] to end and for leaders at all levels of government to work together for an ethical approach to the management of migration that centers the dignity of the person, in this case, the vulnerable migrant.