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Mark Seitz of El Paso is the first bishop from a state along the Mexico border to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee in at least 20
A male Border Patrol agent in La Joya, Texas, speaks in November 2021 with a Honduran man holding his daughter and waiting to be transported to a processing center after turning himself in to seek asylum. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Jan 8, 2023 / 09:48 am (CNA).On the eve of President Joe Biden's scheduled Sunday visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to meet with local officials and border enforcement agents, the U.S. Catholic bishops announced their opposition to the administration's recent crackdown on illegal immigration to the United States.Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, chairman of the...
On the same day he announced his trip to El Paso, Biden unveiled a new migrant policy to confront the surge of asylum seekers at the border.
“It simply defies reason and lived realities to require those facing persecution, trafficking, and torture to only pursue protection from within those potentially life-threatening situations,” Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, said after the Biden administration announced it would not hear the asylum claims of Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans if they have fled to other countries first.
A male Border Patrol agent in La Joya, Texas, speaks in November 2021 with a Honduran man holding his daughter and waiting to be transported to a processing center after turning himself in to seek asylum. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Jan 8, 2023 / 09:48 am (CNA).On the eve of President Joe Biden's scheduled Sunday visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to meet with local officials and border enforcement agents, the U.S. Catholic bishops announced their opposition to the administration's recent crackdown on illegal immigration to the United States.Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, chairman of the U.S. C...