Deportation

Immigrants wait to be escorted by Border Patrol agents in Roma, Texas, April 7, 2021, after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States.

President Joe Biden announced a 100-day halt on deportations and unveiled a preliminary plan to provide a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.

A federal judge Dec. 4 said the Trump administration must fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, after the program that protects qualifying young adult immigrants from deportation was suspended this summer by Chad Wolf, acting Homeland Security secretary.

The June 18 court blocked executive order gives hope to about 700,000 young people who qualify for the program from deportation.

President Trump was accused of using a “dog whistle” against immigrants.

Catholic Extension will provide immediate aid and also raise money for its “Holy Family Fund,” a program it launched earlier this year to financially help husbands and wives and children left without their main breadwinner because of detention or deportation.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision Sept. 18 curtailing the powers of U.S. immigration judges in deportation proceedings, a move that may make it easier for the Trump administration to deport migrants.

Catholic groups hailed an April 24 decision by a federal judge that said a program that benefits young adults who came into the country without legal permission as minors can still accept new and renewed applications and must maintain protections that prevent those who are enrolled in it from being deported.