Fight for the Fourteenth

The U.S. bishops remain divided about many issues, but immigration is not, for the most part, one of them. Their special message against mass deportations passed overwhelmingly last November, and bishops across the ideological spectrum have publicly expressed concern about immigration enforcement that has crossed moral and legal lines. But Catholics on the right don’t always agree with their religious leaders on this issue, as evidenced by the reaction to a recent amicus brief filed by the bishops in the birthright-citizenship case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.