ICE enforcement

With current ICE enforcement tactics, “we are witnessing an increasingly fearful and volatile environment that puts lives and communities at greater risk.”

Sister Leticia was detained as she walked to Our Lady of Sorrows Church in McAllen, where she serves as an extraordinary minister of holy Communion.

“As we saw the violence escalate at Delaney Hall since Memorial Day, the archdiocese wanted to have a prayerful, peaceful presence there.”

“We show that heightened ICE activity is harming the labor market overall, and we find no evidence that it is benefiting U.S.-born workers.”

“The goal here today is to get us energized to take the next steps as dioceses, parishes, religious congregations or as groups of Catholic organizations.”

“The new Immigration and Customs Enforcement measures have been overcrowding U.S. facilities, so they now need to send some deportees to other countries.”

Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray played a key role in drafting Vatican II’s landmark Declaration on Religious Freedom, “Dignitatis Humanae,” in 1965.

Clergy will now have access to ICE holding facility, following a lawsuit filed by an ecumenical group of Minnesota clergy.

“We want to be there, for people especially at the most vulnerable times of their lives, and this is certainly one of them,” the priest said of ICE detention.

“Tragic events in Minneapolis have exposed the abuses of ICE and marked a turning point in how the public views the immigration policy of the administration.”