My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, One of the most critical issues facing the incoming administration is immigration reform. During his campaign speeches and debates, President-elect Trump made sweeping statements not only about immigrants, especially Mexicans, but also about building a 2,000 mile-long wall to protect the U.S. from being overrun by immigrants and about the deportation of all 11 million undocumented immigrants, which he has not retracted but seems to have toned it down by speaking of undocumented immigrants with criminal convictions. This is a national challenge that cannot be resolved only by the incoming administration, but rather requires national reflection on our history as a nation of immigrants and on our increasingly immigrant Church.