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Companions on the journey: Nuns continue border work during pandemic
Story - February 19, 2021 - At the Gateway International Bridge that links Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, a group of volunteers and Catholic sisters pull portable carts with diapers, tents, food and supplies. They cross the border into Mexico on foot, a small caravan of about 10-20 people. Their destination is the migrant camp on the other side, where asylum-seekers…
Serving newcomers at the border: A journal of moments and reflections
Story - August 3, 2021 - Sister Joan Sullivan and Sister Mary Helen Beirne, both members of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Philadelphia, spent a week (July 5-12, 2021) at the Catholic Charities of Laredo’s La Frontera respite care center serving immigrants who entered the United States via the border with Mexico. A journal of their reflections about their service follows.…
Catholic Charities welcomes the stranger
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Story - January 23, 2020 - “You ask yourself every day whether or not you should have come when your life in one place was in danger, and you arrive at another and are still at risk,” said José, who fled Cuba last May. “It’s been hard to adapt. When I came, I thought I would be treated differently. I thought…
A culture of care in rural Idaho
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Story - January 5, 2018 - At the close of Vatican II, Pope Paul VI held up the parable of the Good Samaritan as the model of Catholic spiritual and active life. Inspired by this ideal, Catholic Charities of Idaho (CCI) strives to be the “Good Samaritan” to those most in need here in the Gem State. This work of renewal…
Friday of the fourth week of Lent, 2023
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Prayer & Reflection - March 24, 2023 - “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted” (Psalm 34) Those of us who have the privilege of serving in the field of immigration legal services know all too well what it means to be “close to the brokenhearted.” Families needlessly separated for decades by outdated immigration laws. Mothers deported away from their children. Asylum seekers…
Advocates demand ICE comply with order to release detained children
Story - July 30, 2020 - Franciscan Father Jacek Orzechowski and dozens of other immigration advocates rallied outside the Washington headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement July 27 calling on the agency to release immigrant children being held in detention with their parents. The group also brought 300,000 signatures on a petition demanding the agency release the children, but the…
Immigration Legal Services VISTA
Job - May 9, 2024 - Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services Program provides direct legal services to the immigrant community in a wide range of immigration matters, and conducts community outreach and education. The VISTA will (1) help support a hybrid work model by creating/organizing a virtual library of legal resources/templates for staff, and assist the pro bono team in fully…
CCUSA, others urge extension of TPS designation for El Salvador
News - December 21, 2017 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) joined the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, Catholic Relief Services, Scalabrini International Migration Network, and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. in a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen, urging her to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El…
CCUSA, others urge DHS to remove barriers to care during COVID-19
News - March 18, 2020 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) joins the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration (USCCB/COM), Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), in urging DHS and its components to remove barriers to healthcare access so that immigrants may safely comply with government recommendations during this global…
Catholic Charities employee joins clients in ‘sharing the journey’
Story - September 17, 2018 - Since 2017, Gilda Rada-Garcia has worked as an immigration advocate with Catholic Charities of North Louisiana’s Immigration Integration Services program. She provides assistance and guidance to clients seeking to become legal residents or naturalized citizens of the United States. On September 12, 2018, surrounded by friends and CCNLA staff members, Rada-Garcia joined two of her…
On DACA’s 10th anniversary, CCUSA urges passage of American Dream and Promise Act
News - June 15, 2022 - Alexandria, Va. – In recognition today of the 10th anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the stopgap federal policy that provides qualifying young adults brought here as children with temporary permission to stay in the country and obtain work authorization — Catholic Charities USA stands with our immigrant brothers and sisters and…
Family fights for the American dream with help of Catholic Charities
Story - November 11, 2019 - Marina and Jose Aguilar know well the stereotypes that can cling to the immigrant community: That they flout federal laws and come here illegally. That they commit crimes and overwhelm public assistance programs. That they don’t pay taxes. For the Aguilars, the antidote to such assumptions is to live life well. “We have gotten nothing…