The Phillips Collection museum in Washington illustrates the lives of migrants lost at sea.
At Washington exhibit, the toll of the immigrant journey becomes art
Honduran priest: Accumulation, exclusion, violence trigger migration
Departures have come despite rhetoric toward migrants from U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration’s attempts to discourage asylum-seekers and turn the countries to the south of the U.S.-Mexico border into filters for impeding the path of migrants.
Religious leaders urge U.S. to keep refugee resettlement program
More than 500 religious leaders and organizations signed an Aug. 23 letter to President Donald Trump urging his administration not to go through with plans to possibly end the country’s refugee resettlement program.
Guatemala’s new president faces U.S. challenges on migration
Guatemala grapples with a proposed “safe third country” agreement, which would mean migrants wanting to apply for asylum in the United States, but having first stepped foot in Guatemala, would be returned to the impoverished Central American country to apply for asylum there.
Without budget constraints, what would immigration policy look like?
Elected officials in both parties seem to be comfortable with deficit spending. It makes one wonder what U.S. immigration policy would look like if money were no object.
‘We cannot absorb the migrant population,’ say Guatemalan bishops
Guatemala’s bishops criticized the idea of the country entering into an agreement with the U.S. government to deem it a “safe third country” for asylum-seekers.
Migrants are people, not just a social issue, pope says at Mass
Christians are called to follow the spirit of the beatitudes by comforting the poor and the oppressed, especially migrants and refugees who are rejected, exploited and left to die, Pope Francis said.
Migrant shelters suffer harassment as Mexico toughens enforcement
The Franciscan-run migrant shelter has endured a steady stream of harassment — from politicians and police officers, immigration officials and even organized crime — as it tended to people fleeing poverty and violence in Central America.