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Bishop Seitz on Catholic immigration stance: ‘Mercy has to play a role’

'There has to be some proportionality to our response.'

Michelle La Rosa
Mar 16, 2026
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El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz released over the weekend a pastoral message calling for an end to the government’s policies of mass detention and deportation.

Detailing the abuses and deaths reported inside the local immigrant detention center, Seitz wrote that “the current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which …

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