Under a Trump-era policy, the Biden administration continues to expel thousands of people back to danger, contributing to additional humanitarian challenges along northern Mexico, where many faith-based organizations and NGOs have been rendering aid. In a statement, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees appealed to the U.S. government to lift Title 42 and restore access to asylum. Five hundred people of faith and organizations sent a concerned letter to President Biden urging him to put an end to “Title 42 expulsions.”
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Today, faith leaders from diverse traditions in West Virginia sent a letter to their Senators urging them to include a path to citizenship through budget reconciliation.
Today, faith leaders from a diversity of faith traditions in Montana sent a letter to their Senators urging them to include a path to citizenship through budget reconciliation.
Today, fifty-three faith leaders from a diversity of faith traditions in Arizona sent a letter to their Senators urging them to include a path to citizenship through budget reconciliation.
“Millions of immigrants living in this country contribute in many ways to the well-being of all of us and deserve our gratitude,” said Sister Ruth Bernadette O’Connor OSF, Member of the Leadership Team of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia in Delaware. “They are U.S. Americans in every way except having official citizenship documents. As followers of Jesus Christ and St. Francis of Assisi, who embraced all people as sisters and brothers, the fifty Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia who live in Delaware urge members of Congress to enact legislation that opens a path to citizenship for all immigrants who aspire to be U.S. citizens.”