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CV NEWS FEED // The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently unveiled a series of articles and videos responding to the immigration crisis in the United States.
The series, outlined on the website Justice for Immigrants, is titled “Problem Areas in Migration and a Catholic Response.”
“This initiative isn’t about offering comprehensive solutions,” the website states, “Instead, it aims to shed light on specific challenges within the U.S. immigration system and the issue of migration generally that warrant a closer look.”
The series addresses six areas of concern: religious worker visas, migrant farmworkers, family based immigration, documented dreamers, statelessness, and unaccompanied noncitizen children.
As CatholicVote previously reported, recent changes to the visa category for religious workers could result in foreign-born priests being forced to leave the country. The archbishops of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; New York, New York; and Paterson, New Jersey, have all drawn attention to this issue, with the Diocese of Paterson suing the U.S. Department of State over the changes.
Many politicians have also recently drawn attention to how illegal immigration ends up harming children. Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently called out the Biden administration for losing 500,000 children somewhere between the border and the United States, as CatholicVote previously reported.
“We have 500,000 children who had sponsors in this country that we can’t find,” Adams said. “We can’t find them. We don’t know if they’re doing child labor. We don’t know if they’re doing sex crimes, or we don’t know if they’re being exploited.”
Adams said safety means “everything” to him and drew attention to the hypocrisy of “everyone that states they want to protect everyone but innocent individuals who are victims of crimes and children.”
