To the editor:
I am practicing Catholic member of a parish in the Diocese of Madison.
I am taken aback at the position taken by the Wisconsin Catholic Conference regarding the president’s hold on immigration.
I cannot understand why there is a problem with knowing who is entering the country. Period.
In the 1970s, I remember going to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin to do a story on refugees from Vietnam who were settling in the Diocese of Madison.
One of our parishes — St. Joseph Parish in Dodgeville — helped sponsor a number of these Vietnamese refugees.
Over the years, refugees from other countries received assistance settling in our diocese through the Catholic Charities resettlement program.
Programs such as this continue throughout the United States through Catholic Charities and other religious-based agencies.
