No other U.S. president has been the target of more attacks by Catholic bishops than President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a stark critique of the Trump administration’s announcement that it plans to double its federal immigration detention capacity.
“The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American,” said Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Migration.
“Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country,” he said in a Feb. 20 statement issued by the bishops’ conference.
According to the plan, announced Feb. 19, the administration intends to spend an estimated $38.3 billion from last year’s reconciliation bill to implement a new detention model by the end of fiscal year 2026. This figure, Cahill noted, vastly outstrips other immigration-related expenditures, amounting to “nearly fifty times the annual budget for the entire immigration court system and almost five times the funding provided this year to operate the federal prison system.”
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