El Paso bishop criticizes Texas border efforts, laments ‘anti-immigrant’ rhetoric

[Michie]

Bishop Mark Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso criticized a Texas law that increases the state’s role in deterring illegal immigration to the United States and denounced “anti-immigrant” rhetoric that he said is rising in the country’s two major political parties.

Seitz, who chairs the Committee on Migration of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), commented on the Lone Star State’s new law during an immigration conference jointly hosted by the Catholic University of America and the USCCB. The April 11 event was titled “Responding to Changing Realities at the U.S. Border and Beyond.”

SB 4, which Gov. Greg Abbot signed in December 2023, makes illegal border crossing a state crime and allows state police to arrest people who enter the United States illegally through Texas. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has sued the state over the law based on allegations that it usurps the federal government’s authority to enforce laws related to immigration.

“We’re concerned that this leads to profiling — racial profiling as well,” Seitz said. “It puts fear into every immigrant no matter what their immigration status may be.”

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El Paso bishop criticizes Texas border efforts, laments rhetoric

During an immigration policy conference, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz criticized a Texas law that increases the state’s role in deterring illegal immigration.

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[Wolseley]

SB 4, which Gov. Greg Abbot signed in December 2023, makes illegal border crossing a state crime and allows state police to arrest people who enter the United States illegally through Texas. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has sued the state over the law based on allegations that it usurps the federal government’s authority to enforce laws related to immigration.

Maybe Texas should counter-sue the Federal government for dereliction of duty, in failing to perform their job in protecting the border.

 

[The Liturgist]

Is there a means whereby conservative Roman Catholics can complain about bishops who make political statements they find to be offensive? Or vice versa.

 

[Michie]

Is there a means whereby conservative Roman Catholics can complain about bishops who make political statements they find to be offensive? Or vice versa.

I’m not sure but complaints goes nowhere from what I understand.

 

[th1bill]

Maybe Texas shoual Statld counter-sue the Federal government for dereliction of duty, in failing to perform their job in protecting the border.

My governor tried everything he could to get the DNC/Joe Biden to enforce the Federal Statutes and discovered no satisfaction. Now our DPS can throw them into prison until they can be deported.

 

[The Barbarian]

Maybe Texas should counter-sue the Federal government for dereliction of duty, in failing to perform their job in protecting the border.

I suppose they'd have a open-and-shut case against the idiots who killed the bill that would have provided more funding for the Border Patrol...

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Is there a means whereby conservative Roman Catholics can complain about bishops who make political statements they find to be offensive? Or vice versa.

Do you mean conservative Catholic or conservative political? or both?

 

[The Barbarian]

Do you mean conservative Catholic or conservative political? or both?

Unfortunately, we have some bishops who are more concerned with political issues than those that involve Christian doctrine.

There is precedent for having them disciplined, but they have to be pretty egregious to get the Vatican involved.

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