Mar 25, The Tablet
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, the chairman of the US Catholic Bishops Conference’s Committee on Migration, delivered strong words and a warning on Monday to the administration of President Donald Trump over its escalating crackdown against immigrants and asylum seekers along the country’s southern border and nationwide.
In a sermon delivered to a congregation of nearly 500, as well as scores of diocesan clergy and members of religious orders, a dozen US and Canadian bishops and a Vatican cardinal, Bishop Seitz criticised those whose actions in this world are motivated by the desire for wealth or empire as “idolatry of the worst sort”.
He then turned his argument to the Trump administration’s so-called “hardening” of the US-Mexico border, involving the deployment of US Army troops and the increased presence of armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents throughout the borderlands region, calling it “simply empire masquerading in the guise of security for the benefit of a select few”.
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