The Biden administration has reinitiated and expanded an immigration program aimed at reuniting some immigrant parents in the U.S. with their children left behind in Central America.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided Sept. 14 with President Donald Trump's plan to end a particular immigration protection status that would have allowed people from six countries that have suffered disasters to remain in the United States.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration endorsed an act which would provide a pathway to citizenship for qualifying "Dreamers" and those covered by the temporary protected status and Deferred Enforced Departure programs.
The Department of Homeland Security agreed March 12 to a temporary halt of a plan to end temporary protected status for foreign nationals from Honduras and Nepal.
Officials with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network criticized the March 8 decision granting an 18-month extension of temporary protected status for South Sudan because it does not include recent arrivals.
A letter CLINIC plans to send to key Cabinet members says that designating Venezuelans for temporary protected status in the U.S. "would potentially safeguard the lives of 72,000" people.
Auxiliary Bishop Mario Dorsonville of Washington called on Congress to adopt legislation that would protect "Dreamers" and those covered by temporary protected status and Deferred Enforced Departure.
The Department of Homeland Security has filed notice that it is extending temporary protected status for foreign nationals from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan until Jan. 2, 2020.
