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Now Is the Time to Fix Immigration
With the border secure, the time is ripe for comprehensive immigration reform for the first time in forty years. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offers our legislators an...
The Contrasting Visions of the Judiciary in Brown and Dobbs
In 1954, the Supreme Court upended 58 years of constitutionally protected segregation, concluding that “in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.”...
Tragic Compassion
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 90,000 unaccompanied minors will be apprehended attempting to enter the United States this year, up from 40,000 last year. DHS expects the...
More on the Ethics of Immigration
William W. Chip writes: In “The Ethics of Immigration,” a debate in last month’s issue of First Things , Michael Scaperlanda and I exchanged views on the question of...
The Ethics of Immigration: An Exchange
William W. Chip Until very recently, serious conversation about immigration was all but banished from mainstream American discourse. This consensus of silence, imposed by opinion makers who found the...
Immigration and the Bishops
Frustrated by the national government’s failed efforts to reform our immigration laws, many states and municipalities have begun taking matters into their own hands. According to the National Conference...
