Pharisaical Advocates of Open Borders Already Have Their Reward

The story and its carefully staged photos are blasting everywhere in Catholic media: The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, joined by two dozen bikers from the Knights of Columbus — a Catholic fraternal group committed to American patriotism to which I belong — gathered outside the Florida immigrant detention center nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz.

They gathered to pray the rosary. Nothing wrong with that. However, they’re also complaining that no chaplain services have been provided to detainees. And that’s a concern worth addressing.

Sunday PM about 25 Knights on Bikes stopped at entrance of Alligator Alcatraz and prayed a rosary for the detainees. Archdiocese is still waiting for approval to access to provide Mass for detainees pic.twitter.com/MoXArGjCUh

— Thomas Wenski (@ThomasWenski) July 20, 2025

I Almost Lost My Lunch

So why does my stomach turn when I read about this vigil? Several important reasons. First of all, the U.S. bishops have chosen to pretend that our church teaches de facto open borders — despite our Catechism, which clearly affirms governments’ right to control immigration and migrants’ duties to respect local cultures and obey national laws.

Starting in 2017, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops protested virtually every measure the Trump administration took to enforce our country’s just, democratically enacted, widely flouted immigration laws. When Trump’s team tried to protect unaccompanied minors by separating them from alleged “relatives” and conducting DNA tests, the bishops joined the media outcry about “putting children in cages.”

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