Texas Nuns and Priests Confront Trump’s ICE Raids, Standing Between Agents and Migrants

Inspired by the work of Pope Leo's first U.S. appointment, San Diego Bishop Michael Pham, Texas clergy are stepping into courthouses to shield migrants from sudden deportation.

Father Brian Strassburger, SJ, has been accompanying undocumented migrants to court all summer.

In a deeply reported piece for The Barbed Wire, journalist Cat Cardenas recounts what happened one sweltering July morning in Harlingen, Texas, when an asylum seeker named Carlos walked into a nondescript, tan brick immigration court for what was supposed to b…