Immigration

Immigrant priests, seminarians and religious in the U.S. are among those impacted by immigration enforcement policy, advocates and analysts told OSV News.

Though Canadians have long supported a robust immigration system, cracks in that support have been growing over at least the past year.

It’s been 200 years since thousands of Irish settlers, organized by prominent Canadian politician Peter Robinson, transformed the quaint wilderness in Ontario's Kawartha Lakes region and laid the foundation for a close-knit community with strong Catholic roots.

Amid concern over immigration enforcement raids in the area, the Bishop of San Bernardino, California, on July 8 issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for the faithful if they fear for their well-being.

Despite 74 per cent of Canadians supporting refugees’ right to seek safety, a lack of understanding about immigration nuances looks to be fuelling skepticism and threatening Canada’s humanitarian spirit, according to a new Ipsos survey released on World Refugee Day.

The first major bill tabled by the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney is raising concern among both civil rights and refugee advocacy groups.

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) is nearly six months into a three-year pilot project designed to improve the quality of life and social integration of migrant seniors.

President Donald Trump on March 15 invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself broad authority under a wartime law to deport people allegedly associated with a Venezuelan gang, sparking a legal battle and prompting concern from Catholic immigration advocates.

Pope Francis’ letter rebuking US President Donald Trump for failing to respect the dignity of migrants who move to the United States seeking to escape oppression comes in the wake of questionable theologizing by Vice-President JD Vance.

The Trump administration has been very busy and has, not unexpectedly, generated much discussion and to be sure controversy.