Two thousand people is the highest number of undocumented migrants one south Texas nonprofit welcomed in one day. And a good portion of them were positive for COVID-19. To respond to the influx, a Mission, Texas, public park is now a quarantine site.
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Washington D.C., Jan 21, 2020 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- A federal judge’s ruling has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that allows states and localities to refuse permission for refugee resettlement. The ruling drew praise from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which stressed the need to help refugees to safety and to maintain a uniform refugee policy.
“Today’s ruling is a welcome step in our ongoing ministry to provide refugees, who are fleeing religious persecution, war, and other dangers, with safe haven here in the United States,” said Bishop Mario Dorsonville, an auxiliary bishop of Washington who chairs the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration.
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Denver Newsroom, Feb 18, 2021 / 12:26 am (CNA).- Amid a winter storm that brought freezing temperatures and widespread power outages to much of Texas, Catholics are stepping up to help their neighbors even while dealing with their own shortages of electricity and water.
Unseasonably cold temperatures in most of Texas including record lows in cities like San Antonio and Corpus Christi along with snow and ice have this week crippled much of the state and have caused widespread water problems and power outages.