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July 30, 2020

Faith leaders criticise Trump’s plan to reject new DACA applicants

Faith leaders and immigrant advocates have denounced the Trump administration’s plan to reject first-time applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, and limit DACA renewals to one-year extensions instead of two. Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, California, said the administration’s action, announced on 28th July in a memo issued by... Read More
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July 23, 2020

Immigrant advocates oppose Trump’s new census memo

Democratic leaders and immigrant advocates are criticising President Donald Trump’s memorandum to prevent immigrants without legal documentation from being counted in the 2020 census for the redrawing of congressional districts.  The memorandum is expected to face legal challenges.  The president, who has challenged the census before, pushing for a citizenship question that was not included... Read More
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July 21, 2020

Court orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to begin accepting new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, or DACA. Judge Paul W. Grimm of the US District Court for the District of Maryland said his order “restores the DACA policy to its pre-5th September 2017 status”, referring to the day the Trump... Read More
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July 10, 2020

Trump’s decision to withdraw US from WHO ‘deeply regrettable’, CHA says

The Catholic Health Association said it is “deeply regrettable” that President Donald Trump has formally withdrawn the US from the World Health Organisation during a global pandemic. Instead, the US should be “leading a co-ordinated global response to protect the lives of millions of people around the world”, the organisation said in a statement released... Read More
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July 10, 2020

Cardinal asks Trump to grant clemency to federal death-row inmate

Federal death-row inmate Dustin Lee Honken was convicted of “heinous” crimes but killing him ‘will do nothing to restore justice or heal those still burdened by these crimes,’ Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin has said in a letter to President Donald Trump. ‘Instead, his execution will reduce the government of the United States to the level... Read More
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July 9, 2020

Supreme Court decision on contraceptives called a win for religious freedom

Several organisations praised the US Supreme Court decision that upheld Trump administration regulations giving employers more ability to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage in their health plans. Groups as diverse as Students for Life of America and the Heritage Foundation hailed the 8th July decision as a victory for the free exercise of religion... Read More
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July 3, 2020

Report marks 20th year of US efforts to address trafficking worldwide

Government-sponsored trafficking is “a perversion of any government’s reason for existence”, which is “to protect rights, not crush them”, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during the release of the 20th annual Trafficking in Persons Report. “The United States will not stand by as any government with a policy or pattern of human trafficking subjects... Read More
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July 2, 2020

Judge strikes down Trump administration’s ‘third-country asylum rule’

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration unlawfully implemented its 2019 policy to turn away asylum-seekers if they don’t first seek protection in countries along their way to the United States. Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said the policy might have been legal but the administration... Read More
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June 30, 2020

Catholic leaders denounce court’s rejection of federal death penalty appeal

When the Supreme Court announced on 29th June that it would not hear an appeal by federal death-row inmates challenging the method to be used in their upcoming executions, a long time advocate against capital punishment said the court “abdicated its legal and moral responsibilities.” “This means that the federal government will likely execute four... Read More
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June 29, 2020

Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over’, El Paso bishop says

After visiting a group of pregnant migrant women on the Mexico side of the border, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, issued strong words about the Trump administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ program and other restrictive immigration measures, saying that turning away those seeking asylum in the US amounts to sending them to their... Read More
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