Said Latin pastor The churches are scared Mass deportations in services as an administration of President Donald Trump quickly break up illegal immigration.
“We are invited to the shepherds to serve all communities,” said Reverend Dr. Gabriel Salguero for Fox News Digital. “So we don’t ask, as shepherds, whether people are immigrants and what their status is. We do not have the width of the belt, and we are not officials of immigration and customs execution (ICE). We are not police. But we are deeply concerned that these policies will influence children in our Sunday schools and for families in our service for worship. “
Salguero is a parish priest of the gathering in Orlando, Florida and President of the National Latin Evangelical Coalition, (Nalec), which represents thousands of Latin evangelical churches and religious leaders across the nation.
Since returning to duty, President Trump quickly began to fulfill his promise of a suppression campaign illegal immigration The crisis and deportation of violent criminal migrants, issuing several executive orders aimed at overhaul of the US immigration law and politics.
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Ice agents executed arrests on September 25, 2019 in Revere, Massachusetts. President Trump has issued numerous executive commands that have broken illegal immigration during his first week and second term of office.
Thousands of violent criminals detained the ice toward the White House, with 962 criminal illegal arrests of immigrants Recorded only on Wednesday.
Trump authorized the Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS) for the return of guidelines that have limited the implementation of ice and customs and border protection (CBP) implementation on “sensitive” locations, such as schools, churches and hospitals.
“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in American schools and churches to avoid arrest,” DHS statement said on January 21, announcing changes. “Trump’s administration will not bind the hands of our brave law enforcement and instead believed them to use common sense.”
Salguer’s group, Nalec, has appeared against these changes in politics, calling them “harmful“And an attack on religious freedom.
The church coalition supports Trump’s procedures for deporting violent criminals, but also has concern for targeting other immigrants.
“We want to be sure that in such a type of implementation there is no cold of the spine of Latino Evangelical churches and communities for those people who are not violent criminals, but are people running small companies, who go to school who go to school, who go to school, “Salguero said Fox News Digital.
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Latino Pastor said his churches are moving into the difficulties of potential ice attacks in their churches. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
“We are looking for a sober approach that deals with violent criminals, provides a border, but finds a way to integrate most immigrants trying to do good in this country,” he continued.
The fears of Trump’s immigration policy caused a decline in attending and participating in the Church, Salguero states.
“They said,” We can’t go to church. We don’t feel safe. We are not sure how it will succeed, “he told Fox News Digital of the comment he heard.
The leader of the faith admitted that LED and other immigration officials have the right to enter their worship in order to implement the law and that they should be treated with respect. His group trains spokesmen for any church that can respond peacefully if immigration officers visit their church. They also provide parish information about their rights.
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Rev. Gabriel Salguero said that Latin Churches were afraid of ice raids because of Trump’s executive actions that broke illegal immigration in sensitive spaces like churches. (A gathering place/Getty image)
He believes that Latin shepherds have a responsibility to follow nations and retain their biblical commitment to serving all people.
“This is not a partisan question for us. This is a pastoral question. Christ invited us to walk with these families, to love them,” he said.
Salguero is registered independent, but emphasized that Latin evangelists are not “monolith” and shared various opinions about Trump’s immigration plans.
He said Nalec had spent the last two decades calling for Congress to “common sense, a two -sided immigration reform.”
In a press release, Nalec asked Trump’s administration to “reconsider this harmful policy, while continuing to work with a congress on a comprehensive immigration reform based on justice, compassion and respect for the dignity of all people, regardless of their immigration status.”
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On Friday Press the briefingThe Karolina Leavitt White House secretary defended the action of the Ilegated Imlegation Administration, citing a New York Times survey who showed that “83%” of Americans supported the deportations of violent criminal illegal immigrants and “97%” deportations conducted by Trump’s administration has been so far had orders to deport from the previous administration, according to Ice.
The Homeland Security Ministry and the White House did not return the Fox News Digital comment.
Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
