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CCUSA opposes USCIS proposed rule eliminating means-tested benefit option
News - July 3, 2019 - CCUSA has issued a letter opposing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s (USCIS) proposed rule regarding eliminating the option to apply for a fee waiver based on receipt of a means-tested benefit. The proposal also includes the rescission of the current policy memorandum on fee waivers. The positive attributes produced from the fee waiver process…
CCUSA, other Catholic groups express deep concern about restricting access to asylum
News - November 14, 2018 - Bishop Joe S. Vásquez, of Austin, Texas, Chairman of the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, Sister Donna Markham, OP, Phd, President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, Jeanne Atkinson, Executive Director of Catholic Legal Immigration Network, and Sean Callahan, President and CEO of Catholic Relief Services issued an statement reiterating that it…
Information, legal advice empower detainees to make informed decisions
Story - September 15, 2015 - The Adelanto Federal Immigration Detention Facility, located 90 miles east of Los Angeles, houses roughly 1,300 unauthorized immigrant men awaiting deportation proceedings. If they can’t find or afford an attorney, they will face the judge on their own, which almost always results in deportation. The Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, a program of Catholic Charities of…
CCUSA opposes DOJ’s EOIR interim rule that reorganizes key programs
News - October 25, 2019 - CCUSA submitted comments in opposition to the Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR)’s interim rule that reorganizes key programs that may affect Catholic Charities agencies. The rule outlines the functions of the Office of Policy and the roles of this newly-formed office and the Office of General Counsel within EOIR. It transfers…
CCUSA submits comments to DHS on proposed collection, use of biometrics
News - October 13, 2020 - The proposed rule would dramatically expand government surveillance over immigrants and the U.S. citizens sponsoring immigration cases, collecting DNA, voice prints, iris and face scans as well other personal characteristics to be stored in government databases. We respectfully urge DHS to withdraw the proposed rule in its entirety because it would authorize invasive data collection,…
Replica of Vatican migrant sculpture displayed in Brooklyn
Story - December 11, 2020 - The diocese of immigrants is temporarily the home of a sculpture depicting the movement of migrants. “Angels Unawares,” a replica of the artwork that sits in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, was unveiled Dec. 8 by Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and placed in front of the diocese’s public Christmas tree at Grand Army Plaza.…
Welcoming neighbors in rural Imperial County, California
Story - January 5, 2018 - The Great Recession was beginning to tighten its grip in this chronically struggling region. With fewer immigrants seeking services, the leadership of Catholic Charities San Diego (CCSD) wrestled with how to keep the office open that served them. Today, the El Centro immigration office is the busiest of the four sites that Catholic Charities operates…
DRC refugee uses experiences to help others
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Story - December 9, 2020 - Charles Mugabe is the COVID-19 Project Coordinator for Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigration Services in Maine. As the liaison between Ethnic Community-Based Organizations statewide, Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services, and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Mugabe works with a coalition of organizations to help provide COVID-19 social service support for…
CCUSA, USCCB, CLINIC comment on proposed USCIS fee schedule changes
News - March 10, 2023 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), submitted comments in response to proposed changes to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule and certain other immigration benefit request requirements. The submitted comments express concern that several of the proposed…
Federal judge orders full restoration of DACA program
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/federal-judge-orders-full-restoration-of-daca-program/
Story - December 7, 2020 - A federal judge Dec. 4 said the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, after the program that protects qualifying young adult immigrants from deportation was suspended this summer by Chad Wolf, acting Homeland Security secretary. Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York,…
Catholic Charities counselor, DACA recipient, moves on from U.S.
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/catholic-charities-counselor-daca-recipient-departs/
Story - November 14, 2019 - As an immigration counselor for Catholic Charities of Green Bay, Ana Rodriguez said one of her greatest joys was helping immigrants on their way to permanent residency and U.S. citizenship. “Knowing that they are able to naturalize or even get their green cards — to have a voice — to me that’s everything,” said Rodriguez.…
Welcoming and supporting newcomers for more than a century
Story - April 7, 2021 - For more than 100 years, the Catholic Charities ministry in the United States has provided essential services to immigrants and newcomers. The reason transcends particular time periods, exigencies or politics. Catholic Charities affirms the inherent, God-given dignity of immigrants and refugees, as well as every human person, and works to honor that dignity by helping…