The Catholic bishops of Arizona have come out against a ballot initiative that would criminalize illegal immigration at the state level and strengthen state border enforcement.
Arizona citizens will be voting on the measure, which is titled the Arizona Immigration and Border Law Enforcement Measure, or simply Proposition 314, as part of this November’s election.
Though they expressed “frustration about the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border,” the state’s four Catholic bishops said in a statement that the proposition would have “harmful consequences.”
The bishops asserted that border enforcement is a federal not state issue and that if passed the result of the measure would be that “dangerous criminals will not be apprehended, and public safety will be threatened.”
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