Restore Asylum: End Title 42
Tell President Biden: End Title 42 expulsions and restore the asylum system at the southern border. Since coming into office, President Biden has maintained use of the Trump-era Title 42 public health…
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
Permanent Solutions for Afghan Evacuees
MOGC joined a coalition of faith-based organizations in sending the following letter (excerpted here) urging Congress to pass a bill that would allow for newly-arrived Afghan evacuees in the United States to have permanent legal status, rather than temporary relief.
Root Causes of Migration: Biden’s First Year
A report assesses the Biden administration’s initial efforts to address the root causes of migration from Central America.
Tell Congress: Afghan Evacuees Need Permanent Protection
Take action: Ask Congress to provide permanent legal residency for Afghan evacuees. Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, around 80,000 at-risk Afghans have been relocated to the…
Letter from Civil Society Organizations to Pres. Biden: Support Funding for Palestine Refugees
We wish to thank you for the Biden administration’s restoration of humanitarian assistance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), including your December 2021 decision to provide an additional $99 million to the Agency.
Advent Devotional Guide 2018: Walking Toward Hope
Join us in prayer for migrants and refugees this Advent Season.
Advent Reflection Guide 2017: A Season to Welcome the Stranger
This guide for Advent contains reflections, questions, prayers, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading and the experience of Maryknoll missioners who have lived and worked with communities affected by forced migration in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Webinar: A Partnership to Support Haitians
When: February 16, 2022 at 12pm ET
Learn from Catholic agencies what you can do to help Haitians in your community.
Register at https://catholiccharitiesusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v9ZDDbh3RbO_gcBygyk8MQ
Faith Leaders to President Biden on Inauguration Anniversary: End Inhumane Detention
As we turn to the year ahead, we urge you to reverse course and end overreliance on immigration detention by stopping new detention contracts and terminating current ICE contracts, investing in rights-respecting border management at the border, and committing to enacting just and humane immigration policies.
Haitian Migrants in Mexico
The following article by Daniella Burgi-Palomino was published by the Latin America Working Group (LAWG) in November 2021. It is excerpted here with permission
Growing Campaign to Restore Asylum
Nearly one year since taking office, Pres. Biden continues to violate U.S. asylum law and treaty obligations by turning away asylum seekers.
Joint Letter to President Biden on Remain in Mexico 2.0 and Title 42
Nearly eleven months since taking office, this administration continues to violate U.S. asylum law and evade U.S. treaty obligations by blocking and returning asylum seekers to places where their lives and safety are in peril.
Restore Asylum: End “Remain in Mexico” and Title 42 Expulsions
Urge President Biden to end the “Remain in Mexico” policy and the misuse of Title 42 public health law to expel asylum seekers and migrants at the border. President Biden recently…
Beyond Settler Borders
Time: 7:00pm Eastern Time Hosted by: International Mayan League Register Here Please join us for a vigil led by elders to commemorate and honor the Indigenous children we have lost at the border. December 8 is also third year anniversary of the death of Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old Maya Qʼeqchiʼ girl who died within U.S….
Resources from the November-December 2021 NewsNotes
Find resources on peace, nonviolence, economic justice, migration, human rights, climate change, and much more.
South Sudan: Climate-fueled Suffering
As half a million people in South Sudan face their third straight year of extreme flooding that the UN says is fueled by climate change, Maryknoll lay missioner Gabe Hurrish writes in his newsletter about the growing hunger and violence in the world’s youngest nation.
Central America: Changing U.S. Policies for Migrants
The Root Causes Initiative is working to address the underlying structural and historical conditions driving people to migrate from Central America.
Joint Catholic Letter on Title 42 in Honor of World Migrant and Refugee Day
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns signed the following letter to President Biden by Catholic organizations urging him to rescind the use of the Title 42 health policy to rapidly expel migrants at the southern border.