AFL-CIO, bishops to collaborate on amnesty, immigration reforms

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops and the AFL-CIO will collaborate on efforts to reform U.S. immigration policy, including a new amnesty program for illegal immigrants. At a March 15 press briefing, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Camden, N.J., announced that the two organizations will work together to seek fundamental changes in U.S. immigration policies.

Vow for the Human Right Action

Since May of 1988 our organization have been deeply disturbed by the terrible atocities committed by the Indonesian elites, with the support and acquiescense of the military, against theChinese ethnic minority, the Christians, and people of Aceh, Irian, Maluku, Ambon, Lombok, and East Timor.