Bishop Seitz urges ICE agents not to follow illegal deportation orders

Bishop Mark Seitz issues first pastoral letter on mass detention, deportations

The bishop of El Paso, Texas, called on immigration enforcement officers to follow the Gospel rather than “immoral order.” [...]

Bishop Seitz urges ICE agents not to follow illegal deportation orders

In a pastoral letter on March 15, Bishop Mark Seitz urged immigration enforcement agents not to follow illegal orders and denounced the "grave moral evil" of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.

Bishop of El Paso to immigration agents: No one is obligated to follow an immoral law - ZENIT

(ZENIT News – ICN / El Paso, Texas, 03.17.2026).- The Most Rev Mark J Seitz, Bishop of El Paso, released a pastoral letter on mass detention and mass deportations in El Paso during Mass celebrated on March 15 at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in El Paso, Texas. The message, addressing both mass detention and mass deportation, is the first of its kind since the beginning of mass deportations in the United States this past year, and addressed dire…