Migration Facts
Immigration Reform
Position: The Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Church support humane immigration reform. We must reform our broken system that separates families and denies due process.
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Refugee Protection
Position: USCCB supports protection, humanitarian support, and durable solutions for refugees and other forcibly displaced people. USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services in collaboration with local Catholic Charities across the United State form the largest private U.S. refugee resettlement network, one that has helped to welcome and resettle over one million refugees since 1975.
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Unaccompanied Children and Families from Central America
Position: The United States should provide child and refugee protection, and safe, humane durable solutions for unaccompanied children arriving at our borders without their parent or legal guardian. In recent years, many of these children have been from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Most are fleeing grave, life-threatening violence and gang recruitment and are seeking to reunify with family in the United States.
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Immigrant Detention
Position: The United States needs to build an immigration system that affords due process protections, honors human dignity, and minimizes the use of immigrant detention - particularly for vulnerable populations such as families, children and torture survivors. Immigrant detention is a growing industry in this country, with Congress allocating over $2 billion a year to maintain and expand the existing system. While immigrant detention is necessary in certain instances to ensure community safety and enforcement of our immigration laws, there are many vulnerable individuals who should not be detained. For vulnerable populations such as families, children, torture survivors, there are alternatives to detention that are more humane, more cost-effective, and more consistent with American values.
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Human Trafficking
Position: The United States must not only hold human traffickers accountable for their crimes, but also work to prevent trafficking and provide protection and healing to human trafficking survivors. Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. The Catholic Church has long condemned this practice as an affront to human dignity.
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National Migration Week Talking Points