Four Iowa Catholic bishops have published another letter calling out the Trump administration’s recent crackdown down immigration and on individuals of faith to “welcome the stranger.”
In a 16-page letter, the small group of faith leaders — Archbishop Thomas Zinkula of Dubuque, Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines, Bishop Dennis Walsh of Davenport and Bishop John Keehner of Sioux City — spotlight changes to immigration policies that strike at the “fundamental dignity of the human person.”
They said policies that restrict humanitarian protections, expand detention measures or seek “open-ended deployment of military assets” to enforce immigration “undermine the moral fabric of a nation built on principles of justice and human rights.”
“Law must never be misused to advance the predominance of the majority at the expense of the poor, the marginalized and vulnerable communities,” they wrote in the Friday, Aug. 22, letter also translated into Spanish.
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