ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What is the Catholic Campaign for Immigration
  Reform?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What led the bishops to make immigration reform a
  major public policy priority?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Why did the bishops think a national campaign was
  needed?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What are some of the facts?
• More than 34 million foreign-born persons reside
  in the United States
• 23 million newcomers have arrived over the past
  two decades
• The undocumented population is estimated to be
  between 10 and 11 million people
• Immigration policies have kept families apart for
  long periods
• More than 2,000 people have died attempting to
  enter the country over the past five years

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What immigration reform criteria did the bishops
  develop?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• A broad based legalization (permanent residency)
  of the undocumented of all nationalities

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Reform of our family-based immigration system to
  allow family members to reunite with loved ones
  in the United States

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Reform of the employment-based immigration system
  to provide legal pathways for migrants to come
  and work in a safe, humane, and orderly manner

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Restoration of due process protections for
  immigrants

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What are the Goals of the Campaign?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• To educate the public, especially the Catholic
  community, about Church teaching on migration and
  immigrants

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• To create political will for positive immigration
  reform

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• To enact legislative and administrative reforms
  based on the principles articulated by the bishops

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• To organize Catholic and other community networks
  to assist qualified immigrants to obtain the
  benefits of the reforms

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Who Supports the Campaign?
• A broad coalition of national and local
  Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic and other
  religious organizations

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Who is involved with the local Campaign?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What do Scripture and the Church teach about
  migration?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Old Testament
• Exodus 239
• Deuteronomy 1018-19
• Leviticus 1933-34

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• New Testament
• Matthew 2534-36
• Hebrews 131-3

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Principles of Catholic Social Teaching Pertaining
  to Migration

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Persons have the right to find opportunities in
  their homeland

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Persons have the right to migrate to support
  themselves and their families

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Sovereign nations have the right to control their
  borders

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Refugees and asylum seekers should be afforded
  protection

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• The human dignity and human rights of migrants
  should be respected

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Why does the Church care about immigration?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Why does the Church care about immigration
  policies?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Does the Church support illegal immigration?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Does the Church support amnesty?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Response to undocumented immigration

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Argument Illegal immigrants broke the law. They
  should not be rewarded by being allowed to stay.

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Argument My relatives (grandfather,
  great-grandfather, etc.) came here legally and so
  should these new immigrants.

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Argument Providing legal status to undocumented
  immigrants will penalize immigrants who play by
  the rules and wait in line.

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What are the economics of immigration?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Often heard arguments
• Immigrants take jobs away from U.S. citizens.

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Immigrant workers depress wages and thus make
  jobs less attractive to native-born workers.

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Immigrants use more public resources than they
  contribute to the economy thus, represent a
  burden to U.S. taxpayers.

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Immigrants come here to take welfare

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Immigrants dont pay taxes

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Immigrants send all their money back to their
  home countries

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Immigrants dont want to learn English or become
  Americans

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What about security concerns?
• Dont the millions of illegals in this country
  pose a potential security threat?  Shouldnt we
  deport them?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Our nation is in a war on terrorism shouldnt we
  be sealing our borders entirely?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Can the war on terrorism can be won through
  immigration restrictions?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Hasnt weak U.S. border enforcement led to high
  undocumented immigration?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Dont most immigrants cross the border illegally?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Is there already specific legislation the U.S.
  bishops support?
• The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of
  2005 (S. 1033 and H.R. 2330) 
• The legislation contains most elements of all
  four reform principles articulated by the
  bishops. 

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• How will the Secure America and Orderly
  Immigration Act help fix the broken immigration
  system, curb unauthorized immigration, and end
  the high number of deaths in the desert?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Will this legislation lead to more undocumented
  immigration, like many commentators suggest
  happened after the last legalization bill in
  1986?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• Will the new temporary worker program permit
  foreign workers to take jobs away from Americans
  and also depress wages for all workers?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What about enforcement in the legislation? Is it
  fair and humane and will it also protect our
  national security?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What about addressing root causes of migration?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• How is the Secure America and Orderly Immigration
  Act different from the Comprehensive Enforcement
  and Immigration Act of 2005?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• How is the Secure America and Orderly Immigration
  Act different from H.R. 4437, the Border
  Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal
  Immigration Control Act of 2005?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• HR 4437 would deny basic due process protections
  to legal immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• H.R. 4437 separates families

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• H.R. 4437 would jeopardize humanitarian
  organizations, including church programs, and
  U.S. citizens

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• H.R. 4437 would disrupt immigrant and local
  communities by giving local law enforcement the
  authority to arrest undocumented immigrants

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• H.R. 4437 would impose penalties on immigrants
  who have not committed an offense

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• How will the Justice for Immigrants Campaign
  accomplish its objectives?

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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

• What you can do
• Become aware of the issues
• Visit the Justice for Immigrants website
  regularly
• Advocate for comprehensive immigration reform

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• Catholic Charities
• 37 Evergreen Place
• East Orange, New Jersey 07018
• 973.596.4050
• www.justiceforimmigrants.org