US EditionUSCCB President: Bishops Stand With Immigrants 'In This Challenging Hour'
- On June 16, Archbishop Broglio, speaking for the nation's Catholic bishops, issued a statement supporting those affected by recent immigration enforcement actions across the U.S.
- This surge follows Trump administration policies including daily ICE arrest quotas of 3,000, travel bans, termination of protected statuses, and deportations often lacking due process.
- Archbishop Broglio stressed that 44% of over 51,000 ICE detainees as of June 1 have no criminal record besides unauthorized entry and denounced arbitrary mass removals as a social crisis.
- He affirmed the bishops' solidarity with impacted communities, commended law enforcement's role in security, and emphasized that "violence is never acceptable" while recognizing legitimate protest.
- The archbishop urged cooperation for just, humane immigration solutions, citing denial of legal status and due process as injurious to human dignity and threatening the rule of law.
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Head of U.S. bishops: We stand with immigrants ‘in this challenging hour’
“The many actions of protest throughout the country reflect the moral sentiments of many Americans that enforcement alone cannot be the solution to addressing our nation’s immigration challenges,” Archbishop Timothy Broglio said in a June 16 statement.
USCCB President: Bishops Stand With Immigrants 'In This Challenging Hour'
A member of the clergy holding an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe attends a vigil in Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles June 10, 2025, as protests against federal immigration sweeps continue. (Photo: OSV News/David Swanson, Reuters) by Gina Christian (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 immigration enforcement actions,” said the le…
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Attorney Zaira Solano set the tone for the webinar “Immigration 101 for Ministry: Tools to Support Those on the Journey” by highlighting the increasingly dire immigration crisis that the United States is undergoing. “The current state of immigration law is the toughest I’ve seen in my 14 years of practice, and the toughest that some of my colleagues — who have been around longer than me in this country — have seen,” Solano, founder of Solano Imm…
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U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stands with immigrants 'in this challenging hour' - The Dialog
“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 immigration enforcement actions,” said the leader of the nation’s Catholic bishops in a June 16 statement that assured all impacted of their shepherds’ support. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. military archdiocese, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a reflection ahead …
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