Immigration into the United States and the lack of meaningful reform of the country’s laws governing immigration was voted the top news story of the past year by Catholic Press editors. Clockwise from top, thousands of immigrants and supporters of immigrants’ rights rallied May 17 in Los Angeles to call again for a path to citizenship and legal status for the nation’s 12 million undocumented immigrants; Minutemen Terry Hartley and Ray Ross surveyed the Sonoran Desert in Arizona for groups of illegal immigrants during “April muster,” a monthlong surge of civilian patrols along the U.S.-Mexican border; priests from the U.S. and Mexico concelebrated Mass at the border wall in Nogales, Mexico, Oct. 21, at the end of a joint American-Mexican youth program on immigration; Elena Romero passed tamales through U.S.-Mexican border fence during a Christmas “posada” Dec. 15 north of Tijuana, Mexico. Traditionally, the celebration of posada – which means lodging in Spanish – commemorates Mary and Joseph’s search for a place to stay in Bethlehem.