President Obama issued an executive order on immigration that ensures fewer children experience the trauma of being forcefully separated from their parents due to deportation. An estimated 5 million undocumented immigrants, many of them mothers and fathers, will now be able to come out of the shadows and live without fear.
This executive action is only a temporary reprieve for about half of the undocumented immigrant population and could be overturned by a future president. Congress still needs to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would permanently fix our country’s broken immigration system.
You are invited you to continue standing in solidarity with immigrants by taking the following actions:
• Thank President Obama for this bold action and to tell your senators and representative that you support this executive action and encourage them to do the same.
• View this YouTube video of women religious explaining why this executive action is morally important.
• Join the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Justice for Immigrants’ national call to learn more about the executive action and ask any questions that you may have.
Here is the call-in information: Monday, November 24, 2014 at 2 P.M. Eastern / 11 A.M. Pacific l 1-800-446-1162 and use conference code 106181
