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Border Crisis

Beds for parentless migrants at the Long Beach Convention Center in April. The center is able to house up to 1,000 children. (Brittany Murray/Pool)

SoCal migrant shelters allow Masses for unaccompanied minors

Angelus Staff|May 24, 2021|3 Min Read

Unaccompanied minors seeking asylum are seen in a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle March 9, 2021, after they crossed the Rio Grande River into Penitas, Texas. (CNS/Adrees Latif, Reuters via Crux)

Laredo Church authorities waiting for influx of immigrants

John Lavenburg|Mar 12, 2021|4 Min Read

People in New York City stand on the steps of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office Aug. 15, 2012. (CNS photo/Keith Bedford, Reuters)

Biden reverses policy barring green-card applicants from entering U.S.

Rhina Guidos|Feb 25, 2021|2 Min Read

A migrant from Guatemala talks to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent at the Paso del Norte international border bridge in El Paso, Texas, Jan. 26, 2021, to request asylum. U.S. Catholic officials Feb. 10 called for Temporary Protected Status for Central Americans coming to the U.S. and foreign aid for their hurricane-devastated nations. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez via Crux)

Catholic agencies prepare for influx of migrants at Texas-Mexico border

John Lavenburg|Feb 12, 2021|4 Min Read

A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Diego looks into Tijuana, Mexico, Feb. 2, 2021. (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters)

Biden's orders restore humane treatment of immigrants, refugees, says bishop

Catholic News Service|Feb 3, 2021|2 Min Read

Felipe Ortega of Mexico meets his family at the Paso del Norte border crossing bridge in Ciudad Juarez after being deported from the U.S. Jan. 20, 2021. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

As Biden rewinds Trump's immigration policies, an uncertain future looms

Rhina Guidos|Jan 29, 2021|6 Min Read

Asylum-seekers pray during Mass at a tent camp along the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Jan. 9, 2021. The asylum-seekers are in a program where they must remain in Mexico while their cases are heard in U.S. courts. The election of Joe Biden has sparked some optimism their plight may be resolved soon, according to activists working with them. (CNS photo/David Agren)

Asylum-seekers along Mexican border express hope with Biden in office

David Agren|Jan 25, 2021|5 Min Read

A migrant mother from Honduras plays with her 4-month-old child in Tierra Blanca, Mexico, as they wait for a lift to the United States Jan. 27, 2019. The New York Times first reported Central American migrant children who are in the U.S. are being sent to Mexico in an Oct. 30, 2020, story. (CNS photo/Alexandre Meneghini, Reuters)

World

Report: Central American migrant children who reach U.S. being sent to Mexico

Rhina Guidos|Nov 3, 2020|2 Min Read

A border fence is seen Sept. 24, 2019, between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Supreme Court to hear cases emerging from Trump's immigration policies

Catholic News Service|Oct 19, 2020|3 Min Read

Sister Norma Pimentel, director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, speaks with a young resident of a tent camp housing some 2,500 asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, Feb. 29, 2020. She leads teams providing support for the camp, which is occupied by people forced to stay on the Mexican side of the border while their asylum claims are heard in U.S. courts. (David Agren/CNS via Crux)

Faith

Sister Norma Pimentel says politics should serve people, not party interests

Elise Ann Allen|Oct 6, 2020|5 Min Read

A Honduran migrant mother recently released from federal detention with fellow asylum seekers holds her sleeping three-year-old son July 29, 2019, at a new humanitarian respite center run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen, Texas. (CNS photo/Loren Elliott, Reuters)

After litigation, new HHS policy ends prohibition on abortion for undocumented minors in federal custody

Catholic News Agency|Oct 1, 2020|4 Min Read

Sister Norma Pimentel, a member of the Missionaries of Jesus, is pictured along a border wall in late February. She is the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. (CNS photo/Barbara Johnston, courtesy University of Notre Dame)

Sister Norma Pimentel is one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2020

Carol Zimmermann|Sep 23, 2020|4 Min Read

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