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By Fernando Ceniceros \/ The Rio Grande Catholic, OSV News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EL PASO, Texas (OSV News) \u2014 On March 24, to commemorate the feast day of the martyr St. \u00d3scar Romero, hundreds of people joined in a march and vigil calling for an end to mass deportations and mass detention led by El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz and other Catholic bishops, clergy and organizations in downtown El Paso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Paso<\/a> is home to one of the largest mass detention centers in the U.S. Since mid-December, as many as three people accused of immigration-related violations have lost their lives \u2014 including one ruled a homicide<\/a> \u2014 at Camp East Montana, located in far east El Paso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Seitz, who earlier in March released a pastoral letter on mass deportations and detentions, led the march along with Bishop Anthony C. Celino, auxiliary bishop of El Paso, and fellow visiting Catholic bishops, including Bishop Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 Committee on Migration<\/a>, Bishop Guadalupe Torres Campos of Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico, and Bishop Evelio Menjivar, auxiliary bishop of Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope Border Institute<\/a> and Estrella del Paso were also involved partners in uniting the local community in El Paso behind the march and vigil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

End mass detention and deportations, says El Paso bishop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the event, Bishop Seitz reiterated his pastoral letter\u2019s call<\/a> to end mass detention and deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are coming together to pray and to show our community\u2019s concern. We hope it moves our leaders to think: \u2018Maybe we\u2019ve gone too far,’\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bishop pointed to government data showing over 70% of the 68,000 people in immigration detention have no criminal convictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a grave injustice to lock up people who did what was necessary to survive and care for their family,\u201d he said. \u201cWe do not agree with this process of mass detention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration\u2019s push for mass detention and deportation of immigrants<\/a> who have lived and worked in the U.S. without legal authorization for years heavily impacts the Catholic population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A majority of the people targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for mass detention and eventual deportation are expected to be Catholics in six out of 10 cases, according to a 2025 joint Catholic-Evangelical report published by the USCCB and World Relief. It also found Christians make up 80% of those at risk<\/a> of President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation effort. The report also found nearly one in five Catholics (18%) in the U.S. is either vulnerable to deportation or lives with someone who is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration has also moved aggressively to eliminate temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians, typically Catholic populations, exposing them to the prospect of mass detention and deportation to dangerous and unstable conditions in their home countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Seitz<\/a> offered hope that the actions of civil and peaceful protest would call attention to the injustice of mass detention and deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope actions like this will stir the conscience of people and realize that these people who are threatened right now are their neighbors, and if they are Christians, these people are their brothers and sisters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salvadoran-born bishop quotes St. \u00d3scar Romero<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Menjivar called on all to see the border as a place of encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe border is a place of encounter and conversion,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a matter of having empathy, but a matter of Christian identity. The United States is a country of immigrants, and when we forget that, we lose a sense of who we are as a people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Menjivar<\/a>, the first Salvadorian-born bishop in the U.S., made several attempts to migrate to the U.S. as a young man in 1990. He had several jobs before finally entering the seminary in 1999 and being ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Washington in 2004. He became a U.S. citizen in 2006 after applying for asylum and gaining a work permit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf any of you have done anything to help a migrant who is desperate to better their lives in this country, I want to thank you,\u201d he said. \u201cThat immigrant could have very easily have been me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling attention to the last homily that St. \u00d3scar Romero<\/a> delivered the day before he was assassinated, Bishop Menjivar, drew parallels between St. Romero\u2019s appeal to his government and their appeal to U.S. government officials now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn his last Sunday homily, on the day before he was killed, St. \u00d3scar Romero made a special appeal to government agents: \u2018I order you in the name of God: Stop the repression,\u2019 Bishop Menjivar exclaimed. \u201cThis is the same as what we demand today. Stop the repression. Enough of injustice, inhumanity but also, enough of so much indifference. It is time to wake up. It is time to unite, to come together, without fear, with strength and with faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Paso is the current site of Camp East Montana, an ICE facility which can currently house as many as 3,000 people in detention \u2014 70% of whom the El Paso Diocese believes are Catholic and require sacramental and pastoral care \u2014 and was contracted to hold up to 5,000. In recent months, the facility has experienced a measles outbreak on the heels of COVID-19 and tuberculosis outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a rally prior to taking to the downtown streets, Melissa Lopez, an attorney and executive director of Estrella del Paso<\/a>, the diocesan migrant and refugee ministry, called attention to how quickly the issue of mass detention has escalated in the El Paso region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Paso is ICE\u2019s \u201cdetention capital\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I started this work over 18 years ago, we had 700 detention beds in El Paso,\u201d Lopez said. Now, she said, the region \u201chouses 7,000 detention beds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have become ICE\u2019s detention capital,\u201d she added. \u201cWe do not want to be known as the community where more people are detained \u2014 where people do not get basic information about their rights, do not receive the basic legal representation they are entitled to and that they deserve as human beings. We are becoming stronger as a community that is going to continue to oppose mass deportation and mass detention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times, citing internal Department of Homeland Security documents it had obtained, reported Feb. 18 that the administration is seeking to purchase some 20 warehouses for the detentions<\/a>, with the goal of 92,600 total beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Feb. 20 statement released by the USCCB, Bishop Cahill said the government\u2019s plan for \u201cholding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point<\/a> for our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute, explained why the march will bring attention to the problem of mass detention and deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy do we march? Because when we raise our voices, when we reach out in faith,\u201d Corbett said, \u201cwhen we march together to that place where God is leading us, on the way to immigration reform, when we march with justice as our compass, and hope as our crown and love as our goal, when we put one foot in front of the other, no one will stop us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a part of the commemoration of the feast of St. \u00d3scar Romero, a first class relic of a piece of a blood stained cloth from the martyr\u2019s assassination day was on display during the march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Msgr. Arturo Ba\u00f1uelas<\/a>, an El Paso native and one of the founders of the Hope Border Institute, expressed the significance of this relic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful occasion for us to do two things, to celebrate the inspiration that St. \u00d3scar Romero gives to us, as a bishop of the Church, as well as to unite ourselves with our bishop,\u201d he said. \u201cBishop Seitz is calling us to do the same thing, to be in solidarity with those who are poor, with the immigrant, and also struggle to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a beautiful connection of living our faith, sacramentally in the Eucharist, but also to see that as part of our faith, is a commitment to be in solidarity, but also in the daily struggle that immigrants face today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Seitz\u2019s call to action was centered around the harsh realities of mass detention and deportation that have devastated the migrant population in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey came without documents, perhaps, or maybe they stayed here after their documents expired. We as a nation didn\u2019t give them the opportunity to rectify their situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes they were in the process of legalizing, and it was just taken away by the actions of this administration. We believe that it\u2019s a great injustice to incarcerate people, who have done things that are in many cases, necessary to preserve their life and the life of their family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catholic Social Teaching rejects mass deportations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Catholic social teaching on immigration seeks to balance three interrelated principles: the right of persons to migrate in order to sustain themselves and their families; the right of a country to regulate its borders and immigration; and a nation\u2019s duty to conduct that regulation with justice and mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Catholic bishops noted in a special message promulgated in November<\/a> that the Church\u2019s teaching on immigration \u201crests on the foundational concern for the human person, as created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:27).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bishops also condemned \u201cindiscriminate mass deportation,\u201d a position backed by the Church\u2019s magisterial teaching at the highest level. St. John Paul II\u2019s 1993 encyclical \u201cVeritatis Splendor<\/a>\u201d (\u201cSplendor of Truth\u201d) and 1995 encyclical \u201cEvangelium Vitae<\/a>\u201d (\u201cThe Gospel of Life\u201d) both quote the Second Vatican Council\u2019s teaching in \u201cGaudium et Spes\u201d condemning \u201cwhatever is offensive to human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation\u201d among others. The Council calls them \u201ca disgrace, and so long as they infect human civilization they contaminate those who inflict them more than those who suffer injustice, and they are a negation of the honor due to the Creator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papal teaching in \u201cVeritatis Splendor\u201d reinforced the Council\u2019s moral condemnations, stating these acts are examples of \u201cintrinsic evil\u201d incapable of being ordered to God or the good of the human person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ProPublica report published March 23, the day before the El Paso march and vigil, stated that the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation push has led to the detention of the parents of 11,000 children who are U.S. citizens. It stated that ICE arrests of parents have doubled in the second Trump administration compared to the prior Biden administration, with the Trump administration \u201cdeporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope to raise the awareness of what really is happening now: the suffering that people are going through, the pain that they are experiencing,\u201d Bishop Seitz said. \u201cWe hope that all Christians can encounter Christ in the eyes of the poor and the people that are suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: Catholics and other demonstrators hold placards with photographs and names of people who died in immigration-related circumstances as they take part in a protest in El Paso, Texas, March 24, 2026, against mass deportations and the immigration policies of the Trump administration. Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, center wearing a bishop\u2019s skull cap, can be seen taking part in the the protest. (OSV News photo\/Jose Luis Gonzalez)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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