Invoking Pope Leo, Iowa Bishops Slam Trump's ICE Raids
Four heartland bishops say migrants are neighbors, not suspects — part of a red-state Catholic pushback.
Iowa’s four Catholic bishops just put ICE-style enforcement on notice.
In a pastoral letter released Friday, they defend migrants as neighbors and condemn “enforcement tactics that treat all immigrants… in the same manner as violent criminals.”
The bishops — Thomas Zinkula (Dubuque), William Joensen (Des Moines), Dennis Walsh (Davenport), and John Keehn…
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