“The Church Cannot Be Silent” — ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado and Johan Durán on Their Way to Work

Pope Leo XIV told Bishop Seitz the church cannot stay quiet about ICE. This month, an archbishop in Texas listened — and the Diocese of Portland didn’t.

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to a job site in Houston on the morning of July 7 when an ICE agent shot …