Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it had deadlocked in a case which would have protected millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and would have allowed them to legally work in the United States. Click here to read the statement about this deadlock by Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration. Especially during this Year of Mercy, the last sentence of the statement is so poignant: "People do not cease to be our brothers and sisters just because they have an irregular immigration status. No matter how they got here, we cannot lose sight of their humanity without losing our own. Let us pray for all of our immigrant brothers and sisters today."
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