IMMIGRATION

MIGRANTS/IMMIGRANTS

• Migrants and immigrants are in your parishes and communities
• Immigrants go through injustice, violence against them, suffering, and despair among them because civil and church structures are still in adequate to accommodate their basic needs.

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• We judge ourselves as a community by the way we treat the most vulnerable among us
• The treatment of migrants challenges the consciences of elected officials, policy makers, enforcement officers, residents of border communities, and providers of legal aid and social services, many of whom share our Catholic faith

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• How we organize our society in economics and politics, in law and policy directly affects human dignity and the capacity of individuals to grow in community
• The church recognizes of a sovereign state to control its borders in furtherance of the common good. It also recognizes the right of human persons to migrate so that they can realize their God-given rights.