Leftist Catholics File Lawsuit Exploiting The Eucharist In Immigration Political Stunt

Being turned away after showing-up unannounced at ICE detention facility, leftist Catholics file lawsuit against Trump administration.

A coalition of Catholic clergy and sisters filed suit Wednesday (Nov. 19) after federal officials blocked them from entering the Broadview detention center to offer pastoral care and Communion.

For more than a decade, Broadview had been a place where Catholic sisters prayed with detainees each week. That practice, rooted in the persistence of the late Mercy Srs. JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy, ran without incident. But in recent months, faith leaders say their calls, emails and in-person requests to follow protocols of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were ignored.

The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, or CSPL, represented by attorneys Tom Geoghegan and Patrick V. Dahlstrom, now argues that ICE’s refusal violates the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and other federal protections.

CSPL is a Catholic coalition of more than 50 parishes, religious orders, universities and community organizations focused on transforming systemic racial, economic, social and environmental inequities.

Communication from federal officials grew “shifting, contradictory, and opaque,” said CSPL executive director Michael N. Okinczyc-Cruz.

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