Trump administration

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.

The Trump administration announced the U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security are adopting an interim “third country rule” requiring immigrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to first apply for refugee status in another country.

Many Catholic and other faith leaders noted that the Gospel reading for July 14 — the day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was to carry out deportation orders for some immigrants — was the parable of the good Samaritan from the Gospel of St. Luke.

The Trump administration is weighing a plan that uses a different definition of inflation to determine who lives in poverty and who does not.

The Trump administration named a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Mary Ann Glendon, to chair a new commission that will review the role of human rights in foreign policy.

Although the Justice Department announced July 2 it would no longer argue to have the citizenship question added to the 2020 census, the Trump administration continues to look at all possible options to get the question included.

The U.S. bishops, in a July 2 statement, praised the Supreme Court’s decision June 27 to block the Trump administration’s added citizenship question to the 2020 census and said “the inclusion of a citizenship question must ensure genuine reasons” for it.

The Supreme Court, for now, blocked the Trump administration’s added citizenship question to the 2020 census, sending the case back to a lower court.