The passage of the bill would be “a moral failure for American society as a whole”
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New York, NY - A group of interfaith leaders, including several US Catholic bishops, sent a letter to the US Senate on June 26 urging senators to vote down budget reconciliation legislation (HR 1), the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill.”
In the letter, the leaders stated that the legislation would fund a mass deportation campaign that would “separate US families, harm US-citizen and immigrant children, and sow chaos in local communities.”
The faith leaders also argued that the legislation harms the poor and vulnerable, as cuts to health-care coverage and food assistance would hurt millions of persons.
“From our various faith perspectives, the moral test of a nation is how it treats those most in need of support,” the faith leaders said. “In our view, this legislation will harm the poor and vulnerable in our nation, to the detriment of the common good.”
The faith leaders concluded that the passage of the bill would “be a moral failure for American society as a whole.”
Among the signatories on the letter are His Eminence Robert Cardinal McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, DC; His Eminence Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey; Most Reverend Edward Weisenberger, Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan; and Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop Emeritus of Brooklyn, New York, and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Migration Studies of New York.
The full letter can be found here.
For more information, contact Rosalie Wells at rwells@cmsny.org or 347-407-5137.
The Center for Migration Studies (CMS) is a New York-based educational institute devoted to the study of international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees, and newcomers. For more information, please visit www.cmsny.org.
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