At the start of National Migration Week, taking place this year Sept. 22-28, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration invited the faithful to join "The Cabrini Pledge" and be guardians of hope for migrants and refugees. An Italian immigrant who adopted this country as her own, Mother Cabrini also faced "discrimination and seemingly impossible odds, (yet) she never succumbed to hopelessness. The week prior, the USCCB reiterated its longstanding efforts to show solidarity with immigrants "amid the fear and anxiety prompted by current immigration enforcement efforts." In a Sept. 28 statement, the bishops also said that "National Migration Week invites Catholics across the country to reflect on how hope can shape and inform our collective response to migration." In his video about "The Cabrini Pledge," Bishop Seitz invited people to "make an intentional commitment to living out the Gospel not in abstraction but through acts of solidarity that affirm the human dignity of every person."