Reporter Melinda Henneberger writing for the Kansas City Star:
When I saw what sure looked like written testimony from Chuck Weber, executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference, commending President Donald Trump for the way he’s handling the immigration issue, I actually thought it might be fake. So I called Weber, hoping he’d say that it was. “That is ours,” he said. The testimony was in support of a GOP Kansas Senate bill calling on Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to get fully behind Trump deportations. I had to make sure it was real, I told him, because I was so surprised. “Why would we not support our current laws?” Because we’re an immigrant church? And have always supported migrants? “We do support migrants. We can do two things. We support finding, arresting and deporting criminal elements.” But some of those being deported are not that at all, I said. He admonished me for talking over him, and maybe I was, because it’s not every day that your church throws in with ICE and your country throws in with Putin.
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