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Thu Dec 1, 2016, 09:08 AM Dec 2016

Catholic church prepares to fight grave evil of mass deportations

By Kate Morrissey
November 30, 2016
7:00 PM

American leadership in the Catholic church laid low during the presidential election but San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy is now making clear that if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on campaign promises of mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants, the church is prepared to take “massive action.”

“During the past months the specter of a massive deportation campaign aimed at ripping more than 10 million undocumented immigrants from their lives and families has realistically emerged as potential federal policy,” McElroy said.

“We must label this policy proposal for what it is — an act of injustice which would stain our national honor in the same manner as the progressive dispossessions of the Native American peoples of the United States and the interment of the Japanese” during World War II, he said.

There are an estimated 81 million self-identified Roman Catholics in the U.S., about 25 percent of the population. McElroy said mass deportations could remove more than 10 percent of parishioners from U.S. churches.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-catholic-deportations-20161130-story.html

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