More than 250 Chicago-area clergy have signed a statement criticizing ICE’s actions in the city and pledging to put their “bodies on the line” to advocate for immigrants, citing their faith. Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Catholic archbishop of Chicago, issued his own statement last week, declaring “the Church stands with migrants.”
Mainline Christian and Jewish clergy have been among the most vocal opponents of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort. At a service at the Washington National Cathedral after Inauguration Day, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, asked Trump in a sermon to “have mercy” on immigrants. Since then, more than 55 religious organizations, including the leadership of several Christian and Jewish denominations, have filed lawsuits against the president’s administration, most of them challenging aspects of his immigration policies.
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