A little more than a week after signing a pastoral letter against mass detention and deportations, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, joined members of Hope Border Institute and local and national immigrant advocates in a town hall meeting, followed by a march and vigil in El Paso on the feast day of St. Óscar Romero of El Salvador.
Seitz spoke of the need to risk speaking up and acting nonviolently in support of human rights for the marginalized.
“I will do everything I can to uphold the God-given dignity of every person in our borderlands community,” Seitz told the hundreds of participants March 24.
This year’s march expanded well beyond the local community as bishops, priests, religious and lay volunteers involved in migrant ministries from California, Illinois, Minnesota and North Carolina came to El Paso to show solidarity and respond to a call to action at an unprecedented time in the United States.
They were joined by Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar of Washington, D.C., Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, and Dominican Fr. Brendan Curran of the International Dominican Commission for Justice and Peace in Chicago.
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