The USCCB discussed their desire to Congress that recently modified immigration law be modified yet again to enable legitimate refugees and asylum seekers who had been denied into the country. The bishops argue that there are several cases where the system is keeping out people for providing "material support" to terror groups when this "material support" was forced upon them.
The USCCB also requested that the definitions for terrorist activity and terrorist organization be altered to exclude those groups that are not threatening the US and fail to meet terror organization activity. The USCCB site says that the current definition of terrorist activity possibly covers groups that while they may used armed force are struggling against 'brutal regimes and dictatorships'.
The USCCB site mentions that the bishops did commend Congress' role in securing the country from external threats including acts of terrorism.
http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2007/07-148.shtml
full text of Bishop Wenski's Testimony
http://www.usccb.org/mrs/testimony.shtml
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