President Biden Limits Asylum
An executive order effectively closes the U.S. southern border to people seeking asylum.
Maryknoll Missioners Call for Border Policies that Welcome Migrants
Expanding detention further criminalizes people who are seeking protection for themselves and their children.
Catholics Stand in Solidarity with Migrants
Against the tide of an anti-immigrant culture, Catholics minister to migrants and face heavy criticism.
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.
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.
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.
Summit of the Americas Migration Priorities
Civil society groups outlined migration policy priorities in a letter to Pres. Biden before the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June 2022.