The Tablet December 10, 2020
WINDSOR TERRACE Many people are breathing a little easier in the Diocese of Brooklyn these days.
A ruling issued by a Brooklyn federal judge ordering the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to cease its efforts to chip away at a popular Obama-era program that allows young adults brought illegally into the country to stay when they were children is being hailed by immigrant rights advocates here.
“This is just tremendous. We’re very excited,” said Father Ruskin Piedra, executive director of the Juan Neumann Center. The center, housed at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, provides a wide variety of services to the immigrant community, including legal assistance in fighting deportation.