Passengers from the first buses came from Venezuela, and included families with young children and babies and single men. As more buses came, migrants from Cuba and Nicaragua also arrived, along with more from Venezuela.
Catholic Charities, other groups mobilize to help migrants bused to Chicago
Agencies ‘appalled’ by reports U.S. could end refugee admissions
Catholic and other faith-based groups said July 19 they are “appalled” by reports officials in the Trump administration are considering “zeroing out” the number of refugees accepted by the United States.
Bishop Vasquez welcomes federal appeals court ruling on refugee ban
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country’s refugee resettlement program.