A group of people, thought to be migrants, are ferried ashore by Border Force officers, from HMC Seeker, on a Border Force rib at Dover marina in Kent, England after a small boat incident in the English Channel, Tuesday Sept. 22, 2020. (Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA via AP.)
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – It is “absolutely essential” that we recognize that we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keeper in the ongoing immigration debate in the UK, says a leading Catholic archbishop.
Archbishop John Wilson of Southwark, whose archdiocese extends from South London to England’s southern coast, said politics has to be at the “service of the dignity of the human person.”
Wilson spoke to the Catholic News podcast of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales after the launch of Caritas Southwark.
His remarks came as the British Parliament is considering the Illegal Migration Bill, which would ban migrants crossing the English Channel from seeking asylum in the United Kingdom.
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