A pledge of “massive deportations” was at the center of President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, and steps are already being taken to carry this out in the early days of his administration. The executive orders and other actions taken by the administration pose serious threats to immigrant families and to refugees, present a pastoral challenge for Catholic and other faith communities, and infringe on the constitutional rights of religious organizations to carry out their ministries serving their neighbors in need.
What are the moral dimensions, human consequences, and policy aspects of these commitments and actions? How should the principles of Catholic social teaching shape a response for people of faith and national and local leaders?
In this timely Public Dialogue, five experts and leaders discussed the administration’s plans along with questions of human dignity, family separation, border integrity, the right to seek asylum, religious liberty, and related issues.
Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative and member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, will moderate the dialogue.
View a list of resources for this dialogue.
This dialogue was co-sponsored by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
