Posted on 07/13/2025 3:10:40 PM PDT by ebb tide
WASHINGTON—Asked about a Catholic bishop in California who told illegal immigrants they no longer have to go to Sunday mass, White House Border Czar Tom Homan did not mince words.
“This is BS,” he told The Daily Wire in response to news that San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas issued a decree on July 8 dispensing those in his diocese from attending Mass “due to potential immigration enforcement actions by civil authorities” if they have “genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.” His dispensation is in effect until “such time as this decree is revoked or amended.”
The bishop was referring to President Donald Trump’s immigration actions, which include ICE raids throughout the country. Rojas stated that he is “guided by the Church’s mission to care for the spiritual welfare of all entrusted to my care, particularly those who face fear or hardship.”
Homan dismissed the announcement, saying, “I do not know of a single incident of a church arrest.”
The bishop’s decree may stem in part from the Trump administration’s reversal of a Biden-era policy blocking immigration officials from making arrests at schools, houses of worship, or other “sensitive locations.” The Department of Homeland Security said in January that it would not “tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.”
“We would only go in if there was a violent criminal who was actively hiding out there or something,” Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire, suggesting that an arrest at a church only might occur if an MS-13 gang member was inside.
The Diocese of San Bernardino did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
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Good for Homan. Good post ebby.
Bishops are lonely. If they can score points by bending a knee is all, they think they are finally winning. But their encouragement of illegally coming here is their FAULT for the fear.
The bishop ought to have apologized for usccb collective ignorance in promoting illegal crosdings, apologized to tge illegals, and the citizens.
Instead, he goes for cheap political points and disgusts us citizens yet more.
So basically, situational ethics. You can do, or don’t do, whatever is expedient. Talk about a false religion...
The bishop has a conflict of interest, since Catholic Charities takes in a lot of money to provide services to illegals. It’s like Judge Boasberg getting a large part of his household income from his wife’s paycheck running some kind of illegal alien service. Follow the money.
The illegals also get to break in line ahead of the legals.
Whoever said that crime does not pay???
Even cops go into a church to get an alleged criminal.
The invaders have been invited in by:
1. Democratic politicians who would effectively disenfranchise me,
2. businessmen who resent the American citizens who quite reasonably want to get paid a living wage to have a comfortable living and who would kick those American citizen to the curb to:
a. make a little extra profit for themselves
b. secure the pick of the females for themselves.
These politicians and businesspeople would make my life a living hell.
I say to hell with such politicians, businessmen and their invader helpers.
The invaders and their backers deserve no quarter, including that of a church.
My 66 years have made it clear I will get no quarter.
I will give no quarter when government push comes to likely sidewalk or scrubland residency shortly before death by poisonous viper, fire ant bites or Florida panther.
ICE should wait outside churches to nab illegals . Get tough dammit..
The H-1B visa had made many of young STEM workers life a living hell.
“Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion...”
Amendment I
Your church isn’t legally sacred.
I got news for the bish. The new illegals are not churchgoers. They are not family lovers either. Any SOB who will allow his 3 year old toddler to wander around the border patrol entrance after being dropped of by Acme “coyote” needs to be taken out and shot. IMHO.
Those in our nation that have not assimilated and with questionable allegiance are a problem.
Not just picking on the Bishop - we have many justices, people in government and high places who are foreigners with questionable allegiance to the U.S.
Houston, we have a problem!
I’m thinking that the folks who attend Mass are not exactly the types that ICE are looking for. Now, when Biden and Pelosi attend Mass, well, the rest should separate themselves as there’s a good chance a lightning bolt will take out those two sorry-*ssed POS vermin.
The bishops are grifters seeking NGO cash and NFP status appointments for their friends, family, and relatives. I have found this to be true in every case.
Maybe the bishop doesn’t want to deal with illegals claiming church sanctuary?
At least in this country, they do.
The concept of "sanctuary" was apparently left behind in the Old World.
Due to the fallibility of human beings, who profess to be religious leaders, ALL religions can be considered false - it’s why the brightest of our Founders were Deists.
Clearly he isn’t looking at the Cristeros for inspiration on how to handle the situation. One would think, given that so many of the illegal aliens are Mexican, the Cristeros would be a natural source of inspiration and guidance for a bishop who is truly worried about the souls of his flock.
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