Newly appointed archbishop of Washington, DC, criticizes ‘massive and indiscriminate deportation’ of immigrants who have been in the US for decades.
Cardinal Robert McElroy decried the White House crackdown on undocumented immigrants as a “war of fear and terror,” speaking at a prayer service on Sunday just days after federal cuts forced the US bishops’ conference to lay off 50 employees in its migrant resettlement office.
Only weeks away from beginning his papal assignment in Washington, DC, McElroy used some of the strongest language to date from a US prelate to decry Trump administration moves on immigration.
“We can do nothing other than come together and pray and proclaim our belief that the rights of every man and woman and child and family are in violence in our midst,” McElroy said at an overflow crowd of 1,200 at a prayer service at St. Joseph Cathedral* in downtown San Diego on Feb 9.
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With thanks to National Catholic Reporter and Ken Stone, where this article originally appeared.
