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Every week, Adri\u00e1n (not his real name) eagerly looked forward to a visit from Scalabrinian Sister Leticia Guti\u00e9rrez at the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas. \u201cIt\u2019s my only opportunity to see people beyond the barracks,\u201d Adri\u00e1n would tell her. \u201cListening to you and talking with you lifts my spirits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adri\u00e1n, a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Guatemala, was arrested last year by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while working in construction in Philadelphia. He was detained in a local facility for several months and then moved to another in Buffalo, New York. In December, he was transferred to El Paso<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adri\u00e1n is among hundreds of detained immigrants visited by a group of volunteers, including Maryknoll missioners, led by Sister Guti\u00e9rrez, director of the diocesan Migrant Hospitality Ministry<\/a>. The Migrant Ministry, explains Sister Guti\u00e9rrez, follows a pastoral accompaniment model of attending court hearings, visiting people in detention centers and reaching out to their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volunteers go to El Paso\u2019s two immigration courts three times a week. Outside the courtrooms, they recommend that people going to hearings take a photo of their alien registration number to send to family members, so that if they are arrested, loved ones can monitor their status. \u201cWe suggest that they memorize a phone number or write it down somewhere on their body,\u201d Sister Guti\u00e9rrez says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Executive
Executive Director Ruben Garc\u00eda welcomes a young migrant with disabilities at a shelter run by Annunciation House, which he founded with friends in El Paso 48 years ago to serve migrants. The nonprofit has since grown into a network of shelters. (Octavio Dur\u00e1n\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After their hearings, individuals with a deportation order \u2014 despite having the right to appeal within 30 days \u2014 are detained by ICE. Before they are handcuffed, they are given a chance to share a spiritual moment with volunteers. Maryknoll Father Kenneth Moody<\/a> describes this time as intense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearings might take up to three hours, he says, \u201cwhile the act of offering support and prayer lasts only three minutes.\u201d The missioner says, \u201cIt involves reassuring detainees that the Lord is always with them, and that they can turn to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Moody, who spent 24 years in Venezuela and 14 years in Bolivia before starting his border mission in 2021, counts his Spanish skills and a willingness to listen as key assets for this work. Sister Guti\u00e9rrez says that in their second task of accompaniment, the volunteers go to detention centers to make \u201cfriend visits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe conduct weekly personal visits to those who were detained in court,\u201d she says. Sometimes, she adds, their family members reach out for help. \u201cIn Adri\u00e1n\u2019s case, his fianc\u00e9e visited him and, worried about his emotional health, asked us for assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Camp East Montana<\/a>, one of the country\u2019s largest detention centers, facilities are like warehouses. In a \u201cbarracks,\u201d as detainees call it, over 70 overwhelmed people sleep in the same space, Sister Guti\u00e9rrez reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Migrant Ministry ensures they receive at least one initial phone call and deposits $25 into their accounts for family contact. \u201cWe bring them prayer books and word search puzzles to help pass the time,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe pray with them whenever they ask and accompay them until their deportation or release.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The diocesan Migrant Hospitality Ministry is run by Scalabrinian Sister Leticia Guti\u00e9rrez (left), who organizes a host of volunteers including Maryknoll missioners, and Scalabrinian Sister Elisete Signor, the ministry\u2019s director of operations, to respond to the needs of detainees and their families. The sisters are shown attending a march and vigil on March 24. (Octavio Dur\u00e1n\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Father Moody used to celebrate Mass once a month at detention centers for 60 to 80 detainees. \u201cI encouraged them to seek God during their hardest moments,\u201d says the missioner, who recently returned to Maryknoll headquarters in New York. \u201cThe detention centers were harsher than jails. In jail, up to six people shared a cell, but in immigration centers, detainees were packed into large open spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third objective of the pastoral accompaniment model, Sister Guti\u00e9rrez explains, is engaging with family members. \u201cThey suffer from anxiety and depression. We use listening therapy \u2014 showing them we are there for support,\u201d she says. The detention experience is unsettling for the whole family, she adds. \u201cOne day, detainees might be kept in this detention center, and the next, transferred to another at midnight \u2014 creating a profound sense of uncertainty for their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sister Guti\u00e9rrez visited Adri\u00e1n from December to late January. His fianc\u00e9e, with the help of organizations that assist immigrants, paid his legal costs and filed a habeas corpus petition. He was released on bond with an electronic ankle monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adri\u00e1n, whose asylum case continues, was moved to Annunciation House, a volunteer-led organization in El Paso that has been welcoming immigrants and refugees for 48 years. Currently, the house hosts 10 to 15 people daily who are released from ICE custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bishop
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar, and Bishop Jose Guadalupe Torres Campos of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, take part in a vigil and protest in El Paso March 24, 2026, against mass deportations and the immigration policies of the Trump administration. (OSV News photo\/Fernando Ceniceros, courtesy Diocese of El Paso)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another shelter within the network \u2014 the Papa Francisco (Pope Francis) shelter \u2014 serves women and families previously authorized to live in the United States. Many have lost their work permits due to ruptures in immigration protocol and cannot support themselves, says Ruben Garc\u00eda, founder and director of Annunciation House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people living at the shelters are either in the asylum process or actively seeking another type of immigration relief, Garc\u00eda says. Often, they held official documents, such as a work permit, a temporary Social Security number or a driver\u2019s license. Previously, people in that situation would not have been detained. However, under the Trump administration, ICE has been instructed \u201cto set those documents aside and detain them,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is catastrophic for families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of them believed that because their cases were still pending, they would not be detained, Garc\u00eda explains. \u201cThey come out deeply shaken and visibly distressed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the individuals released from detention arrive without their personal belongings, copies of their documents or case paperwork, he says. Volunteers help them organize their travel back to the cities where they had previously lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work of volunteers, including the long-term service of many Maryknoll missioners, is crucial, Garc\u00eda says. It is up to us to listen to God\u2019s Spirit and then respond to his call, he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin McCarthy, who promotes mission for Maryknoll\u2019s Mission Formation Ministry, moved to El Paso last year. Every week he visits a detention center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCarthy says that he is concerned about a 27-year-old detainee from Ecuador. \u201cShe seems very depressed,\u201d he says. \u201cShe told me, \u2018Today marks two years that I\u2019ve been locked up.\u2019\u201d The young woman, who is considered at risk of selfharm, has been placed in a small cell with only one other woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll\u2019s message \u2014 and that of Catholic Social Teaching \u2014 is to uphold the dignity of every human person, McCarthy says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Sister Guti\u00e9rrez, the ministry of accompaniment strengthens the faith of religious workers and volunteers, giving them a deep spirituality rooted in their encounters with detainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the inmate, God is the only true support,\u201d she says. \u201cLet us persist in spreading God\u2019s tenderness through listening, dialogue, and acts of kindness, and keep our hope and faith in God, who continually accompanies his people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: At a march and vigil March 24 attended by hundreds of people including five bishops, protestors hold posters of people who died in ICE detention or were killed by agents. The event, set on the date St. \u00d3scar Romero was assassinated in 1980, was sponsored by the Diocese of El Paso and Hope Border Institute, in partnership with several other faith and community leaders. (Octavio Dur\u00e1n\/U.S.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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