Posted on 12/30/2017 2:31:16 PM PST by Olog-hai
After more than 100 years, a Roman Catholic church in Detroit is closing, partly because Hispanics who worship there fear immigration agents.
The final Mass at All Saints Church will be celebrated Sunday on Detroits southwest side. The congregation of 300 families will be encouraged to attend St. Gabriel, a nearby church. [ ]
[The pastor at St. Gabriel, the Rev. Marc] Gawronski said there has been an increase in raids and enforcement by federal immigration agents in the community.
Immigration agents have an informal agreement that they have affirmed that they will not go into churches and not hassle people going to church, he said. Nonetheless, people are even nervous about being able to get up in the morning and go to church.
Only three people attended a Spanish Mass on a recent Wednesday night, the Free Press reported.
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We’ve seen many hispanics not attending church services here in NW Arkansas (all denominations) supposedly due to fear of ICE and immigration enforcement.
And this is all out of sheer ignorance and blatant scare tactics by the radically-Left sanctuary city type Marxists. They have intentionally (with the help of major media) scared the crap out of Hispanics. ICE has not, nor have they ever, used churches to find and arrest/deport illegals. Yet the LEFT loves scare tactics - and its working.
Or Latin.
Esconderse
“fear of ICE”
Fear of the law. Fear of justice finally catching up with them. Fear of us, finally, after a quarter-century of skating.
The illegals won’t make bogeymen out of federal LEOs actually trying to do their jobs, to enforce the law.
ICE isn’t the FBI, IRS or CIA.
ICE has actual fidelity, integrity and courage, after serving for decades as a whipping boy for the open borders Uniparty scofflaws.
Pure b.s. propaganda, courtesy of the Mediascum.
As with many demographically transformed neighborhoods, the church has probably been bereft of its traditional sources of donations and attendance for a long time. A lot of churches shut down when they can no longer sustain themselves.
The real reason is the Catholics are harboring illegal aliens.
Thou shalt not steal...so parasites and churches who shield them,
why do you condone stealing from taxpayers?
So are they so stupid they think that La Migra can find them at All Saints but not at St. Gabriel? Or do they think we are so stupid that we will buy the Papist lies?
you are correct.
Is that pronounced “HEE-day”?
They can’t. It’s all about coin in the coffers. Same way parishes in NY and Boston turned a blind eye to blatant support and fundraising for the terrorist IRA in the 70’s and 80’s by the AOH and KofC chapters served by their Priests.
Doesn't the Catholic Church teach that lying, stealing and coveting are sins? How then can the Church condone the sins of the illegals. The Church is leading the illegals to eternal Hell and damnation.
Most of those denominations don't have services in Spanish. They expect that the people attending speak English.
#30 Not only that, they spend all their effort getting the parasites signed up for every local, state and federal “assistance” they can.
Then to mask their theivery, they report to the public all these bloodsuckers are self saficient.
“Maybe Catholics should stop encouraging illegal behavior.”
I hear yah. The wife is staunch anti-Catholic as she knows a few that literally live in sin, go to confession, feel better, and keep on sinning. I think of the Mafia folks myself as an example.
people are even nervous about being able to get up in the morning and go to church.
They wouldn’t be so nervous if they were getting up in Meh-e-coh City to go to church .... nervous about being unarmed and gunned down by the cartels or Mexcan Federales possibly.
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