Border Bishops Call for Safe, Orderly, and Humane Immigration Border Bishops Call for Safe, Orderly, and Humane Immigration U.S. and Mexican bishops living along the border issued a joint statement this week calling for humanitarian solutions to immigration. As U.S. and Mexican bishops along the border, we witness daily the dilemma that our migrant sisters and brothers face, the statement reads. For most, the decision to migrate is not motivated by an indifference toward their homeland or the pursuit of economic prosperity; it is a matter of life or death. While recognizing the right of nations to control their borders, the bishops call on countries to welcome migrants in accordance with their intrinsic dignity and to pay special care to the treatment of children.