From the Irish Star:
Catholic bishops in the US have made a desperate plea to President Donald Trump, urging him to temporarily halt immigration raids over the Christmas period. The White House responded by suggesting operations would continue without interruption. The request came from Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski and was backed by seven additional members of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops. [scroll for more:]
“The border has been secured. “The initial work of identifying and removing dangerous criminals has been accomplished to a great degree,” Wenski wrote. “At this point, the maximum enforcement approach of treating irregular immigrants en masse means that now many of these arrest operations inevitably sweep up numbers of people who are not criminals but just here to work.