No place like home: Brazilian immigrants leave US for better job prospects

Christian Science Monitor
The deep US recession – and a rebound in Brazil – have reversed the flow of migration. Will other immigrants follow?
By Taylor Barnes
When Leonardo Nakao’s flight from Brazil landed in Boston at 1:30 a.m., he didn’t have to search long for a job. By 5 a.m., he was pumping gas at a suburban [...]

ACTION: Immigrants STILL need protection

Justice for Immigrants
Take Action!
Contact your Senator on Health Care and Immigrants
Background: On September 16, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), introduced his version of health care reform in the Senate.  The Senate Committee on Finance will likely debate this bill during the week of September 21.  A key issue in [...]

Bishops say health reform should include all immigrants, legal or not

By Chaz Muth
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Though Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., concedes there’s no political will in Washington to include illegal immigrants in health care reform, he believes it’s the country’s moral obligation to ensure that everyone in the nation receives proper medical care.
That includes those who enter the country illegally, he [...]

ITALY-LIBYA: Migrants Returned To Face Abuse

By Sabina Zaccaro
ROME, Sep 21 (IPS) – “They beat us. They beat everyone, men and women. They usually beat us in the same room where we were kept. But they took some people out of the room. Not me, but they took other women out of the room.”
Nadifa*, a 19-year-old from Somalia, was among 91 [...]

Bishop Kenney calls for controlled immigration into Europe from Africa

Independent Catholic News
By: Peter Jennings
Bishop William Kenney,CP, Spokesman for European Questions of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales,Ceuta,migrants
Bishop William Kenney, CP, Spokesman for European Questions of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales travelled to Ceuta, the Spanish coastal  enclave in Morocco, on Saturday,  for a short fact-finding mission to visit and [...]

Theology in the age of migration

National Catholic Reporter
Seeing the image of Christ in the eyes of a stranger
By Daniel G. Groody
Migration has always been part of human history. But because of widespread changes caused by globalization, more people are migrating than ever before, prompting some to call our own generation “the age of migration.”
In the last 25 years the number [...]

Immigrants, Health Care and Lies

New York Times
Illegal immigration is an all-purpose policy explosive. Toss it into any debate and, boom, discussion stops because you’ve got people afraid that benefits or services might be going to those who don’t deserve them.

EU plans to admit more refugees

BBC News, Brussels
By Oana Lungescu
The European Commission is set to unveil plans to allow more refugees from conflict zones and poor nations into European countries.
The scheme is aimed at discouraging immigrants – mainly from Africa – from attempting to reach Europe illegally.
Many risk their lives as they try to enter the EU, often relying on [...]

Immigration Reform Moves a Notch

National Immigration Forum
 On August 20, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and staff from the White House, DHS, and the Justice Department met with stakeholders from immigration advocacy organizations, faith groups, businesses, labor organizations and law enforcement agencies to discuss immigration reform.  

West African bishops ask nations to boost economy to deter migration

BANJUL, Gambia (CNS) — Catholic bishops from English-speaking countries in West Africa have asked the region’s governments to work on improving the economy to discourage youth migration. “The push and pull for migration becomes obvious when the economy of a nation is in shambles,” wrote the bishops from Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia. [...]