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 […]

Call the White House    The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Justice for Immigrants Campaign is sponsoring  a week of call-in days to the White House to urge protection for families facing deportation. Since administrative action on deportation relief has been pledged for “after the November elections,” the call-in days will […]

Please Act ASAP HUMANE Act: Both Senator Cornyn and Representative Cuellar are introducing the HUMANE Act in the Senate and the House. THIS BILL WILL DIRECTLY HARM THE CHILDREN FLEEING FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND WILL MILITARIZE OUR SOUTHWEST BORDER. Congress will try to pass this bill ASAP. If enacted, the […]

The response by the Obama Administration and members of Congress to the influx of migrant children at the US-Mexico border becomes more worrisome by the day. The latest move is to propose changes to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2008, to speed up deportations of these children. […]

 Action Alert      Congress needs to address Root Cause of migrant children at the US-Mexico Border. Please take action and send a send a message to your Member of Congress and your Senators, urging them to conduct a full analysis of the root causes of the humanitarian crisis of […]

There could be a brief window of opportunity now through July for the House to act on immigration reform this year.  Leadership in the House of Representatives continues to refuse to act on immigration legislation, despite having enough bipartisan votes to enact a bill with a path to citizenship. Please […]

Immigration Reform – Time is Running Out – Please Make a Call -Important Date – June 11 – Join with others in making a call Time is running out and the next few weeks could prove to be the last hope for true immigration reform until after the next Presidential Election […]

Time is runing out for the House of Representatives to take up immigration reform. There are positive indications that the House Leadership will try to move a series of immigration reform bills in mid-June.   The success of any immigration reform  in June will need to be accompanied by a large push […]

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and faith partners in the Justice for Immigrants Campaign will host a day of action for immigration reform on November 13 (feast of Saint Frances Cabrini).   The Feast Day of Saint Frances Cabrini is Wednesday, November 13th.  On the day to honor St. […]

Please Take Action: This week the government shutdown ended and more than 10,000 people of faith completed on Friday, October 18th their 40 days of prayer, fasting and advocacy for immigration reform. Now, as attention turns away from the budget and debt crisis, it is the time to call on […]