Why am I posting this?
Because Jesus said:
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me..."
No... real life is not as simple as the Lord's words here - real life is much more complicated. And
because it is, people who want to follow Jesus need to work out how to do what he asks of us. I'm grateful to the US Catholic bishops for helping us to do just that.
On February 17, 2026, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the matter of: Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security et al, petitioners v. Al Otro Lado et al, respondents.
This case addresses the legality of a now-defunct Biden administration "turnback policy," which blocked access to the U.S. asylum process. Under this policy immigration officers
physically and indefinitely blocked people seeking safety at official
border crossings from setting foot onto U.S. soil, thus flouting federal
immigration law.
The amicus brief is not brief - it is 23 pages long. For those not interested in reading the whole document, these two paragraphs from the brief's Summary of Argument will be helpful:
The turnback policy at issue in this case was an attempt by the government to shirk its legal duty to inspect and process vulnerable asylum seekers at the Nation’s borders. As respondents have ably demonstrated, that maneuver does not succeed in avoiding the plain terms of the Immigration and Nationality Act’s (INA) inspection and processing provisions.
USCCB writes to underscore that the flaws in the turnback policy run much deeper than plain text. The policy violates the obligation to care for refugees—a fundamental legal and moral principle that runs through nearly two millennia of Catholic faith, an international humanitarian consensus, and this Nation’s history.
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