KBI in the news: Migrants, advocates gather at border, call on Biden to “save our asylum”
Catholic News Service covers KBI and #SaveAsylum Coalition’s September 25th bi-national march, Restore Protections for Holy Families: Prophetic Action to #SaveAsylum. Executive Director of Ignatian Solidarity Network, Christopher Kerr, said in his interview with CSN, “President Biden campaigned on how we’d treat asylum-seekers and other immigrants. He’s the first U.S. president to talk about the situation of migrants and asylum-seekers at our border ever. Yet, look where this Biden policy is — it’s no different than what the Trump administration was doing for four years…“President Biden needs to be held accountable for what he campaigned on, and we need to be held accountable for how we treat someone coming to our border, seeking safety from grave danger, from torture, threats of violence. As Catholics, we need to be the conscience in our communities, we need to be the conscience to our elected officials, and we need to carry the vision of the Gospel into the halls of Congress.” Several of the migrant organizers who spoke at the march were also interviewed.
KBI in the news: ‘Injustice has us here’: In Nogales, faith leaders migrant families call for an end to pandemic-era protocol, Title 42
Arizona Public Media covers KBI and #SaveAsylum Coalition’s September 25th bi-national march, Restore Protections for Holy Families: Prophetic Action to #SaveAsylum. Carlota, one of the migrant organizers of the march, shares her story about fleeing extreme violence in Guerrero and being denied access to asylum under Title 42. “I think it is a right that they are taking away from us,” Carlota said. “It’s a right that all humans have, to ask for asylum, or at least to be listened to.”Read more about how CBP shut down the DeConcini port of entry when the first of 25 families, accompanied by faith based leaders, approached the immigration officers to ask for their right to request asylum.
KBI in the news: On both sides of the border, migrants, faith leaders and immigration advocates protest to save asylum
AZ Central covers KBI and #SaveAsylum Coalition’s September 25th bi-national march, Restore Protections for Holy Families: Prophetic Action to #SaveAsylum. Read interviews with Bishop Edward Joseph Weisenburger and advocates such as Alba Jaramillo, Executive Director of AZJFON, and Noah Schramm, Project Coordinator of the Border Action Team for Florence Project.
“We’re done: Immigration advocates stage walkout on Biden administration
On Saturday, October 16, 2021, immigrant advocates signed off in protest from a virtual meeting with Biden administration officials and officials from the Department of Homeland Security. Advocates are beyond frustrated with administration’s decisions to extend the “Remain in Mexico” policy and Title 42. Luis Guerra, from the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, said, “I think they’re afraid of the backlash of anti-immigrant groups, and we’ll continue to remind them that that backlash will exist regardless of what they do. We don’t actually believe they’re doing everything in their power to actually restore asylum at the border, the way that they say that they’re trying to.”
U.S. prepared to restart “Remain in Mexico” border policy in November
On October 15, 2021, the White House announced that it would restart the “Remain in Mexico” policy, formerly known as, the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). This comes after a federal judge from Texas, ordered the Biden administration to restart the policy back in August, for which now the administration needs to oblige. Mexico is now left to decide whether to accept or not the conditions of the policy. Read KBI’s letter to President Andrea Manuel Lopez Obrador regarding MPP.
The CDC’s Title 42 order fuels racism and undermines public health
Dr. Anthony Fauci, in an interview with CNN, said, “The problem is within our own country…Focusing on immigrants, expelling them… is not the solution to an outbreak.” This was in response to the Biden administration’s decision to extend Title 42 earlier this month, using the delta variant as a justification to expel asylum-seekers.
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