How ICE Turned Immigration Into a Church-State Power Struggle

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become the sharp edge of the administration’s immigration crackdown. The agency now commands more funding than any other U.S. law-enforcement agency, with tens of billions in new multiyear appropriations layered on top of its annual budget; an expansion of power that has coincided with a rise in violent and fatal encounters now drawing national scrutiny.

Congregations across the country, many of which often function as food distribution sites, legal referral hubs, and support centers for immigrant families, now find themselves in the immigration enforcement crosshairs after the Trump administration last year rescinded long-standing guidance discouraging immigration actions near places of worship.

Days after Good’s killing, at a rain-soaked vigil outside the New Hampshire Statehouse, fellow Bishop Rob Hirschfeld, who had been with Loya at the monastery, escalated his warning.

“We are now, I believe, entering … a new era of martyrdom,” Hirschfeld said. “I have told the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire … to get their affairs in order, make sure they have their wills written. It may be time, not for statements, but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.”

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[FakeNoose]

1. Pastors, ministers and monsignors CANNOT be in cahoots with ICE

It's totally wrong that some of them are. They either work for ICE or they're taking money on the down-low. It's not right and it endangers their own church members.