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Bishop Mario Dorsonville said that the bishops “welcome these Executive Orders on migration, which will help to ensure that immigrants and refugees are treated humanely and in accordance with their God-given dignity.”...while criticizing the Trump administration, asserting its immigration policies had damaged immigrants and refugees. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News that the Democrats’ DREAM Act legislation, if enacted into federal law, will permit the extension of amnesty to illegal aliens with criminal convictions. The DREAM Act “would ignore criminal records,” Cotton warned. “It would exclude multiple criminal convictions at the state and federal levels, [including] serious and violent...

Bishops’ migration chairman welcomes ruling fully restoring DACAWASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee Dec. 8 welcomed the court ruling fully restoring the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, but said only Congress can “take up and pass legislation granting Dreamers a path to citizenship.”The bishops “are particularly pleased that with this ruling,” handed down late Dec. 4 by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, because “youth who are first-time applicants are allowed to apply for the program for the first time since 2017,” said Auxiliary Washington Auxiliary...

U.S. Bishops’ Immigration Chief Says Jesus Was Part of a ‘Refugee Family’ The chairman of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration said Jesus Christ was the member of a refugee family, while applauding a judge’s block of President Trump’s executive order on refugee resettlement.