Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso has warned that one in five Catholics in America are at risk of themselves or family members being deported under President Trump’s mass deportation plans.
Seitz made his statement while citing a new report called, “One Part of the Body: The Potential Impact of Deportations on American Christian Families.” The report found that one in 12 Christians in the country “are vulnerable to deportation or could lose at least one family member if the United States government were to deport all of those vulnerable to deportation without any change in law.”
“Catholics are overrepresented in those currently at risk for deportation,” Seitz said during a conference call with the Catholic and evangelical authors of the report March 31, per reporting by the Religion News Association. He later added: “The people that are being numbered among those under threat of deportation are not people who are harming our community, but rather building it up.”
The 71-year-old bishop overseeing congregations along the border in West Texas has been among the most outspoken Catholic leaders to criticize the Trump administration’s deportation plans that allow for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest people in churches.
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