The May 1 study estimating the potential effects of a mass deportation program estimated that 3.8 percent of all U.S. citizen children — about 2.7 million in total — face the potential of being left without either parent in their home as a result of such a program, while 4.71 million — 6.7% of all citizen children — are at risk of losing from their household one parent who is in the U.S. without documents.
The deportation of criminal aliens who have committed and been convicted of felonies and are a threat to communities is a logical fulfillment of immigration law. However, the issue of almost indiscriminate deportation, which may include families with mixed legal status — with some American-born or permanent residents — is quite another issue.
It would be much more to the benefit of our country, and certainly to the immigrants, that they were given a chance to rectify their situation and continue to contribute to our nation and its economy.
A U.S. archbishop has denounced the Biden administration’s decision to resume deportations of Haitian migrants, given the rampant violence and instability in Haiti.
A recent court ruling has become another bend in a “rollercoaster” ride for hundreds of thousands of individuals who arrived in the U.S. as children without legal permission.
The Vatican March 18 shuttered its nunciature in Nicaragua after Ortega’s government proposed suspending diplomatic relations with the Holy See.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, who heads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, issued a statement Feb. 21 in response to several recent developments in Nicaragua, including the deportation of 222 political prisoners to the United States Feb. 9 by President Daniel Ortega’s regime.
In oral arguments that lasted more than two hours, the court seemed divided over the challenge to the administration’s policy that put a priority on deporting immigrants who pose a threat to national security, public safety or border security.
