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Iglesia católica encabeza acción en Los Ángeles para proteger a Dreamers
La Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles se unirá este lunes 26 de febrero a todas las diócesis de Estados Unidos en el Día Nacional de Llamadas para Proteger a los Soñadores.
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BISHOPS BECKON CATHOLIC FOLLOWERS TO SUPPORT DREAMERS AMID IMMIGRATION REFORM
With the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program set to expire in a little over a week, Catholic bishops across the U.S. have come together to organize a “National Call-In Day to Protect Dreamers.”
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We Cannot Just Be Culturally Catholic
In America, the Catholic Church is a church of many races and cultures. In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles alone, Holy Mass is celebrated in nearly 40 different languages. There are cultures that in America we still associate with Catholicism, while there are other cultures that we associate as hostile to the Catholic faith.
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El 26 de febrero será el día nacional de llamadas para proteger a los ‘dreamers’; ¿cómo puedes ayudar?
Los últimos esfuerzos para proteger a los más de 700 mil beneficiarios del programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (Daca) llegarán este lunes 26 de febrero.
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PATRON SAINTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
The mounting peril facing immigrants and refugees in the U.S. will only become more grave in 2018. Literally millions of undocumented residents, nearly 800,000 DACA recipients, a quarter-million Temporary Protected Status (TPS) residents and thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America face detention and deportation.
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Piden a católicos que ayuden a los “soñadores”
La Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos (USCCB, por su sigla en inglés) convocó a sus fieles a llamar el próximo lunes 26 de febrero a sus congresistas y demandarles una solución legislativa para los “soñadores”.
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U.S. bishops declare national call-in day to urge Congress to save DACA
After the Senate failed Feb. 15 to garner the 60 votes needed to move a bill forward to protect the “Dreamers,” officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced a “National Catholic Call-In Day to Protect Dreamers” Feb. 26.
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Immigration advocates hold on to hope after Senate DACA failure
Although Catholic immigration advocates are disappointed that the Senate on Feb. 15 voted down multiple proposals for protecting young immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children, they say they are still holding on to hope and committed to working for a solution.
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USCCB calls on Catholics to take action for Dreamers
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are urging Catholics to call Congress and demand they act on behalf of “Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors but have been allowed to stay under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama administration policy that protected them from deportation.
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‘Time to reconsider our tactics on DACA’
Recently, I found myself in a car with two DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program recipients driving from central L.A. to Camarillo to speak to seminarians about our country’s broken immigration system. We each shared our immigration stories, but more interesting to me was the conversation about our place in this movement.