The Guadalupe Province of the Missionary Sisters sponsors an Immigration Commission. The Commission is revitalizing and re-energizing our work for and with immigrants. Guadalupe Province Immigration Commission is revitalizing, re-energizing our work for and with immigrants.
Immigration Commission Members are:
Karol Brewer, Province Formation Office
Lorraine Campanelli, Cabrini Lay Missionaries – Director & Cabrini Immigrant Services, Dobbs Ferry, NY – Director
Nancy Costello, Province Communication Director
Sr. Yolanda Flores, MSC – Cabrini Immigrants Services, NYC
Susan Pierson, UNANIMA Representative and Cabrini Lay Missionary
Sr. Pietrina Raccuglia, MSC – Cabrini Mission Foundation – Chair
Sr. Roselle Santivasi, MSC
Amelia Scdoris – Justice for Immigrants – Cabrini Immigrant Services, NYC
Rocio Soria-Morales – Intern with Cabrini Immigrant Services, Dobbs Ferry, NY
The Commission has established new goals/action steps and will keep everyone informed via our Province Weekly Update and Website.
Opportunities will be offered for everyone to be involved so please be sure to check this webpage for details.
Law Update:
– Parole in Place Ruling
A federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s “Keeping Families Together” program that would have allowed approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens to gain legal status and a path to citizenship without leaving the United States. The judge, appointed by Trump, said the program violated immigration law, siding with a lawsuit filed by more than 13 Republican-led states. The Department of Justice under President Biden can appeal the ruling, but the new Trump administration could drop the appeal.
– DACA
The 580,000 people currently protected under DACA will be vulnerable to deportation under the Trump administration. Their applications state they are undocumented — proof that they can be deported — and the government has information on where they live same as with other groups that could be targeted are people with humanitarian parole and TPS.
