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IMMIGRATION
 


**Click here for the information on the Justice for Immigrants Campaign and
related Catholic social teaching.

 
March 15, 2011 - Catholic Bishops of Connecticut support legislation (H.B. 6390) that provides in-state tuition rates at Connecticut colleges and universities for undocumented youth who have graduated from a Connecticut high school and have attended that school for at least four years. 
Update: H.B. 6390 has been signed by the Governor
 
Click here for the Conferences testimony and more background information.  

             May 1, 2008  - Connecticut Bishops Issue Statement on Immigration   

         
"TO SEE THE IMMIGRANT THROUGH THE EYES OF FAITH"
 

                     U.S. Bishops Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, Chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Migration, expresses the bishops' support for comprehensive immigration reform. Such reform would take into account both the rights of a country to secure its borders and the rights of people to emigrate to support themselves and their families. 

 

 

Testimony of BISHOP Thomas G. Wenski, Bishop of Orlando, Florida

BEFORE Congress on CompreheNsive ImmiGration Reform
May 22, 2007
(Note: Excellent review of Issues from Catholic Perspective) 

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