Catholic Legal Immigration Network

Catholic leaders are speaking out against a Trump administration proposed rule announced Sept. 22 that would deny green cards to legal immigrants using public assistance.

As Somalia experiences what the U.N. has called the worst humanitarian crisis in the nation's history, approximately 500 Somalis have been granted at least 18 more months in the U.S. after Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen opted to renew the country's temporary protected status July 19.

Immigration law is bewildering even to American lawyers who speak English. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. is part of the Catholic Church's effort to fulfill the gospel mandate to "welcome the stranger." 

Hundreds of thousands of people don't need amnesty to reconcile their status in the U.S., say immigration experts -- they simply need justice as defined by the nation's laws.