To Remember Fallen Migrants, Highlight Human Consequences of Broken Immigration System
Trip follows example of Pope Francis at Lampedusa;
Border bishops will join Committee to celebrate Mass in remembrance of the dead;
Immigration reform needed to end suffering, redeem the nation.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, joined by bishops on the border, will travel to Nogales, Arizona, March 30-April 1 to tour the U.S.-Mexico border and celebrate Mass on behalf of the close to 6,000 migrants who have died in the U.S. desert since 1998.
The purpose of the trip is to highlight the human suffering caused by a broken immigration system, an aspect of the national immigration debate which is often ignored.
?What we fail to remember in this debate is the human aspect of immigration
