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Catholic bishops: Gov. Abbott, don’t shut down our ministry to care for migrant children
Catholic bishops: Gov. Abbott, don’t shut down our ministry to care for migrant children
Bishop Seitz and Bishop Flores: The vulnerable children in Catholic Charities’ emergency and foster care need help.
Families with very young children, likely under the age of 6, arrive to the Catholic Charities migrant respite center in downtown McAllen on March 30, 2021.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
By Mark J. Seitz and Daniel E. Flores
1:30 AM on Jul 18, 2021 CDT
This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called
Children carry empty water containers inside a migrant encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, Feb. 18, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Daniel Becerril)
In the coming days and weeks, border communities like El Paso, Texas, will once again begin providing hospitality to asylum seekers for the first time in two years.
In that time, the Migrant Protection Protocols, more commonly known as the Remain in Mexico policy, have forced asylum seeking families and individuals to navigate a punitive immigration system from situations of insecurity in northern Mexico.
President Joe Biden has rightly eliminated the program.
In the wake of the damage done by Remain in Mexico, we (Bishop Seitz and Hope Border Institute) formed the Border Refugee Assistance Fund to provide critical humanitarian assistance to refugees in our sister city of Ciudad Júarez. Tens of thousands of migrants have been returned there by Remain in Mexico as well as by policies that still remain in place, like Title 42, a p