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Bishop Seitz: Mass detention, deportations are ‘grave moral evil’
March 16, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, said in a March 15 pastoral message that “the current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those affected.”
“I am blessed with many friendships with our local law enforcement and immigration enforcement agents,” he said. “Their work to keep our community safe is vital. But the death of those in immigration detention is unacceptable. An unjust immigration system that leads to deadly outcomes is destructive of our shared humanity. No one has to obey an immoral order.”
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Posted by: grateful1 -
Mar. 17, 2026 6:57 PM ET USA
Did the good bishop oppose the mass illegal immigration allowed by a president in flagrant violation of the duly enacted laws of this country and of his oath to faithfully execute those laws? If not, then the bishop is a shameless fraud of a churchman and lacks any moral standing whatsoever to lecture us about the "immorality" of the mass deportation remedy made necessary by his own disrespect for the law.
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Posted by: howwhite5517 -
Mar. 17, 2026 6:51 PM ET USA
Mass deportation is the result of mass immigration unregulated. Countries have a right to regulate immigration.
