Tag: Immigration

  • March 18, 2021

Migrants at the border: Smugglers spread rumors, push factors continue

Migrants riding atop northbound trains break from their trips to refresh at the Jesuit-run day center in this...
  • March 18, 2021

House passes two immigration bills with citizenship provisions

The U.S. House of Representatives approved two separate immigration bills March 18, clearing an initial hurdle for two...
  • March 16, 2021

Unaccompanied minors, a pandemic and politics mix at the border

For the past month, Magdalena Chávez and her sisters have spent their days praying for their 17-year-old nephew....
  • March 11, 2021

Catholic, other faith groups applaud decision to grant Venezuelans TPS

Pro-immigrant groups applauded a March 8 decision by the Biden administration to protect some 320,000 Venezuelans in the...
  • March 8, 2021

El Salvador’s recent election may test Biden’s plan to stem immigration

Weeks before legislative elections in February, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele kept trying to tamp down a report by...
  • March 2, 2021

Biden begins talks with Mexico touching on immigration, Virgin of Guadalupe

U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began bilateral cooperation talks March 1 with...
  • February 26, 2021

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

President Joe Biden announced Feb. 24 a reversal of a 2020 proclamation by the Trump administration that sought...
  • February 18, 2021

Biden’s immigration plan begins what might be long journey through Congress

Democrats formally introduced one of the most ambitious plans to date to address legal and illegal immigration in...