“This is an attack on the Gospel and an attack on the rights of believers and people of goodwill to put their convictions into practice,” Corbett said.
The coalition of Catholic and borderland organizations challenged President Joe Biden’s administration to step in.
“We call on the Biden Administration to vigorously defend the protection of vulnerable migrants at the border and to challenge the entire Operation Lone Star in court,” they wrote.
To Texas, they wrote, “We demand that the State of Texas end its campaign of intimidation against people of faith and aid workers and stop using migrants and believers as pawns in political games.”
At the end of his statement, Seitz made several promises to his community.
“We will not be intimidated in our work to serve Jesus Christ in our sisters and brothers fleeing danger and seeking to keep their families together,” he wrote.
Moreover, the bishop promised, “We will not surrender the identity of our borderlands, a place which chooses compassion over indifference, human fraternity over division, and radical hope and evangelical love over hatred and exclusion.”
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