Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

“We want to create dialogue. We’re not trying to embarrass them. … We’re not against them. This is not an anti-government protest.”

The Trump administration plans to appeal a ruling barring immigration officers in Southern California from conducting actions based solely on a person’s race.

“This is a travesty, there was no due process and our message is bring him back now,” Father Guillermo Treviño, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in West Liberty.

The Trump administration rescinded in January long-standing restrictions on arrests at sensitive locations, including houses of worship.

Miami clergy have expressed concern over “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new detention facility for migrants in Florida’s Everglades that President Trump toured July 1.

Even as the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage made a prayer stop near downtown Los Angeles, fear and tensions from recent raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arose.

Catholic reaction to the “Big Beautiful Bill” immigration proposals and on-the-ground developments has walked a careful line between compliance and concern.

Bishop Michael M. Pham, who fled Vietnam as a refugee in 1980, and his auxiliary bishops joined a June 20, 2025, clergy visit to immigration court in San Diego.

(OSV News) — “No one can turn a deaf ear to the palpable cries of anxiety and fear heard in communities throughout the country in the wake of a surge in …

“The current state of immigration law is the toughest I’ve seen in my 14 years of practice,” said Zaire Solano.