Among Donald Trump's most alarming, repeated and ambitious commitments as a candidate was to arrest and deport up to 12 million undocumented immigrants... Now he is laying the groundwork to remove those immigrants from their homes, jobs and communities.
Mr. Trump said in November after his victory that he would declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military to accomplish his deportation plan. A top aide has said that vast holding facilities would serve as staging centers for immigrants as they wait to be flown to other countries.
Church leaders should speak out now, and forcefully. So should priests across the country in their Sunday sermons. Twenty percent of American adults describe themselves as Catholics; one-third of them are Hispanic.
Pope Francis' secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said shortly after Mr. Trump's election that the church was for a wise policy toward immigrants and therefore one that does not go to these extremes.
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